22 JUNE 1944, page 18

The Four Kings In The Street Of Gold. By F.

Horace Rose. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d.) THERE is a weird magic as of King Solomon's Mines about the almost Chinese landscapes and Byzantine manners of the Ethiopian high lands. A lot......

The Authors Of This Gay Trifle Tell How, As Young

girls, they crosse d the Atlantic, unchaperoned, in search o f Europe ; which meant reallY , in spite of halts in London and elsewhere, Paris, France. They gil.! now their own......

Country Life

IT has been generally accepted that the cuckoo is the only bird that sings a true musical interval. It has been saidthat the true major third, heard in May, often descends to a......

This Book Has A Topical Interest, For It Concerns Arakan,

the north- western seaboard of Burma, where General Wave11 is beginning to press back the Japanese outposts on the Mayu River ; and it even mentions the Japanese, but only as......