The EU Capital Guide (2nd edition)

It has always been my hope to make my reviews interesting as well as informative, but now and again there is a case where the former is beyond my powers. “Beachcomber”, the one‐time humorous columnist of the Daily Express newspaper, used to satirise a fictitious reference book called the List of Huntingdonshire Cabmen – which was just that. The present volume (though of course of more practical use) appears to belong to the same school. Now in its second edition (the first was not reviewed in these columns), it is a list of about 10,000 officials and politicians of the...