20 JUNE 1952, page 24

Fiction

THE setting of Mr. Stephen Coulter's first novel is a small town on the west coast of Africa ; and if the story owes something to Mr. Graham Greene, the way in which it is told......

Mann Examined

Thomas Mann : An Introduction to his Fiction. By Henry Hatfield. (Peter Owen. 12s. 6d.) AN amazing amount has been written about Thomas Mann ; • perhaps more than about any......

Seventh City Of Christendom

THAT hard-worked phrase " dear, dirty Dublin " cannot possibly strike many visitors to the noble city so admirably described in Mr. Craig's book as being particularly revealing.......