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Envoy Extraordinary

Japan Past and Present. By Edwin 0. Reischauer. (Duckworth, 21s.) IT was one of President Kennedy's most suc- cessful and imaginative appintments tb send a former Professor of......

Peerless Jim Driscoll

I saw Jim Driscoll fight in nineteen-ten. That takes you back a bit. You don't see men Like Driscoll any more. The breed's died out. There's no one fit to lace his boots about.......

Fifteen Months

Finland in Crisis 1940-1941. By Anthony F. Upton. (Faber, 45s.) THIS book starts in March 1940 when the Peace of Moscow closed the Winter War between Fin- land and the USSR; it......

Genius For Sale

Pindar. By C. M. Bowra. (O.U.P., 50s.) BERGSON remarks, in Creative Evolution, that 'the Greeks trusted to nature, trusted to the natural propensity, of the mind, trusted to......