22 MARCH 1946, page 22

Fiction

ONE of the most popular characters in fiction is that favourite child of universal comedy, the little man who is always in difficulties but always triumphant, who is assailed by......

An Arabian On Holiday

A Pilgrim in Arabia. By H. St. John Philby. (Robert Hale. 16s.) IN the minds of many readers, Mr. Philby is associated with the deserts of Arabia, a field in which he had made......

Desert Heroes

Born of the Desert. By Malcolm James. (Collins. 126. 6d.) IN his modest account of great deeds by men who spent a con- siderable part of the war behind the enemy's lines, Dr.......