The best, and best written, book in English on the practice of diplomacy is by the late British diplomat (or as he would have ...

DWIGHT MORROW—Harold Nicolson— Harcourt, Brace ($3.75). Biographies by Harold Nicolson (Paul Verlaine; Swinburne; Curzon) have been characterized by careful scholarship, an almost ostentatious ...

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (312 pp.)—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide.

HAROLD NICOLSON : THE WAR YEARS, 1939-1945, VOL. II OF DIARIES AND LETTERS. Edited by Nigel Nicolson. 511 pages. Atheneum. $8.50. “One should write one’s diary for one’s great-grandson ...

DIPLOMACY—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Intriguing European diplomats have long regarded their phlegmatic British rivals as men of diabolic cunning. They compress their admiration and ...