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Light And Shade In China

Chungking Diary. By Robert Payne. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) READERS who turn to this book for information about Chungking as the war-time capital of China, to learn about military......

Genteel Decay

Watering Place. By Robert LiddelL (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.) A VEIN of rather chilly malice is often to be detected in those brought up by aunts. With some—Saki, for instance—the......

Un Francais Parle Aux Anglais

M. MAILLAUD is well known to English listeners as Pierre Bourda one of the broadcasters in the French service of the B.B.C. The broadcasts in which he took part were better than......