5 JUNE 1964, page 25

Lost Legions

HISTORICAL fiction has never been my strong point, yet my favourite of this batch is a story of the seventh century. Talargain, The Seal's Whelp, by Joyce Gard (Gollancz, 13s.......

Into The Past

Captain Cook and the South Pacific. By Oliver Alexander the Great. By Charles Mercer. (Cassell, 21s.) WALKING round Richard Buckle's lavish Shake- speare exhibition at......