5 MAY 1967, page 16

New Novels

Exile's story MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The Mimic Men V. S. Naipaul (Deutsch 25s) The Unaltered Cat Albert Lewin (Collins 21s) Light Cavalry Action John Harris (Hutchinson 30s) Time......

Arch-reactionary?

J. H. PLUMB Edmund Burke is both a historical figure and a living tradition, a situation which would have delighted so complex, so devious a per- sonality. The cult of Burke......