24 JANUARY 1941, page 20

Shorter Notices

MR. CHURCFM I has written a short. foreword for this 194o edition of Pitt's War Speeches. The comparison -between these days and the time when Napoleon's invasion-army waited on......

To Say That Miss ,bigland Is A 'talented Journalist Is

to say that her travel book on the Rhodesias and Nyasaland is. easy to read, and has a fresh and sympathetic approach to many human problems, African and 'European. She has a......

Fiction

Devotes of the short story—among whom "include me out," as Sam Goldwyn used to say—would probably tell me that Miss Elizabeth Bowen's gifts are very well suited to it; and it is......

Things Mortal By Sir Frederick O'connor. (hodder Me...

6d.) SIR FREDERICK O'CONNOR is not a particularly good writer, but at least half of this autobiography makes agreeable reading because of the Very substantial interest of its......

Leninism. By Joseph Stalin. (lawrence And Wishart. 7s. 6c1.)

IN 1924 Stalin delivered a series of lectures at Sverdlovit University under the title Problems of Leninism, in which amogf other things he followed current orthodoxy by......