7 MARCH 1969, page 15

Pax Britannica: The Climax Of An Empire James Morris (faber

50s) Imperial sunset J. ENOCH POWELL, MP Critics of Empire Bernard Porter (Macmillan 70s) I was 'recently talking to the sixth form of a gramtriar school about defence. I gave......

False Dawn

ROBERT SKIDELSKY The Commonwealth Experience Nicholas Man- sergh (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 70s) Most empires have been lost on the battle- field. Our own period is no exception.......

Post From Parnassus Books

ANTHONY BURGESS Martin Seymour-Smith's aim in Poets Through Their Letters is to show chronologically—from Wyatt to Frost—how poets' letters throw light on poets' work. Between......