12 JANUARY 1940, page 25

Modern Mythology

AMERICAN writers on social subjects seem at present far more willing than their British counterparts to venture outside the conventionally limited field of a recognised......

Chesterfield

The True Chesterfield. By Willard Connely. (Cassell. iss.) CHESTERFIELD was one of those nearly-great men who never quite " come off," possibly through some scepticism as to the......

A Portrait Of Total War

very, distant to most people ; but it is none the less a good thing that we in England, who have as yet experienced no horrors from the war in which we have engaged, should be......