16 APRIL 1942, page 20

Fiction

Laugh at Polonius. By Jack Hilton. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) IN The Sword and the Sickle, Mr. Mulk Raj Anand pursues s further the growth. in self-consciousness and social......

History And Hypothesis

Night Over Europe ; the Diplomacy of Nemgsis, 1939-1940. By Frederick L. Schuman. (Hale. t8s.) THE gravity of the present war-crisis may seem to make the writing of the history......

The President

Roosevelt. By Gerald W. Johnson. (Hamish Hamilton. ios. 64.) IN quiet times the Presidents of the United States exercise no power. They are hedged about with safeguards designed......