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Eminent Victorian

• The • Laurel and the Thorn: A study of G. F. Watts. By Ronald Chapman. (Faber and Faber. 18s.) THIS is a readable and interesting biography, but one cannot help feeling that......

The Problem Of Hiroshima

God and the Atom. By Ronald Knox. (Sheed and Ward. '78. 6c1.) THE debate about the unannounced use of atomic energy to destroy Hiroshima—a debate already raging among our......

The Normandy Campaign

THE sub-title of this book is rather misleading. Mr. Melville deals with the events it indicates little more adequately than at least one other war correspondent. His record is......