14 MAY 1948, page 22

Russia For The Man In The Street

Come Hammer Come Sickle. By Sir Paul Dukes. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) THE problem of recommending " a good book on Russia " to the enquiring but uninformed " man in the street " is......

Two Letter-writers

Two Quiet Lives. By David Cecil. (Constable. 12s. 6d.) A. How d'you like this new thing of Cecil's ? B. Enormously. But I can't see why he should call either Dorothy Osborne's......

Fifteenth-century Siena

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