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Two Critics

Herman Melville : His Life and Times. By Lewis Mumford. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) MR. MUMFORD'S book was first published in 1929, when the professional critics either ig- nored......

Guerilla, Counter Guerilla

The Art of War. By Sun Tzu. Translated by Samuel B. Griffith with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart. (0.U.P., 35s.) People's War People's Army: The Vietcong insurrection manual......