23 OCTOBER 1959, page 26

Negro States

Old Africa Rediscovered. By Basil Davids0 (G ollancz, 25s.) MR. DAVIDSON'S 'Old Africa' consists mainly various `civilisations' that flourished in the and south-east of the......

Moby Jack

The Identity of Jack the Ripper. By Donald McCormick. (Jarrolds, 18s.) THE scholarship of murder has grown to be a specialised industry in the twentieth century.......