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"the Spectator" Strategist

THIS chronicle of the war needs no commendation to Spectator readers. They may, nevertheless, be too ready to assume that they know what it contains and, like all of us, be too......

Russia's Eastern Peoples

Soviet Asia. By E. S. Bates. (Cape. 8s. 6d.) THERE is probably no people which has less racial prejudice than the Russians. This was as true of the Tsar's Empire as it is of the......

A Tale To Tell

A Thousand Shall Fan. By Hans Habe. (Harrap. los. 6d.) IF only it had a heroine Herr Habe's book would make a most excellent film—for adult audiences only. As :t is, it makes an......

South Africa By A South African

As a picture-book this slim volume is delightful. The illustra- tions, which range from reproductions of seventeenth and eighteenth century engravings, and of late eighteenth......