12 AUGUST 1943, page 16

Last News From Japan

Tokyo Record. By Otto D. Tolischus. (Hamish Hamilton. I2S. 6d.) Japan's Dreams of World Empire : the Tanaka Memorial. (Allen and Unwin. 4s. 6d.) THOUGH we must be near......

Prophecy In Past Tense

Brazil, Land of the Future. By Stefan Zweig. (Cassell. los. 6d.) THE practical British reader will be more than a little shocked by the exuberant enthusiasm and candid intuition......

Fiction

Escape in Vain. By Georges Simenon. Translation by Stuart Gilbert. . (Routledge. 8s. 6(1.) Men in the Same Boat. By J. D. Beresford and Esme Wynne-Tyson. (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d,)......