25 JANUARY 1952, page 20

The Pious Lovers

A &IAN of sedate enthusiasm and of prescribed though admirable taste, perhaps a prig and certainly a dilettante, John Evelyn is one of the most problematical of English......

The Great Marquis

IF the pen is supposedly mightier than the sword, how doubly so when one is grafted on the other and the gift of language wedded to powers of action ! A thin line of Shelley......

Chinese Documentary The Dam. A Novel By Richard Hunter....

12s. 6d.) The Dam is a brilliant " documentary " of the civil war in China in 1947. it has that quality of the blending of world history with the ordinary individual's......