25 JANUARY 1952, page 22

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CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY, who was killed in Korea with Ian Morrison, was a war correspondent of great distinction, and in this (as it were) demi-official history his sure sense of......

The Angry Critic

FOR the purposes of criticism," writes Dr. Leavis in his_ intro- ductory essay, scholarship, unless directed ley an intelEgcnt interest in no, t - y—without, that is, critical......

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......