27 MAY 1943, page 20

Fiction

The Ministry of Fear. By Graham Greene. (Heinemann. Ss. 6d.) The Ship. By C. S. Forester. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) Escape Into the Past. By George Slocombe. (Harrap. 9s. 6d.)......

Long Distance. By Walter Elliot. (constable. 7s. 6d.)...

ELLIOT was an outstanding success as a broad- caster, and his B.B.C. talks during 1942;to America and the Empire were well worth reprinting. The talks are those not of a '......

• The German Problem

Need Germany Survive ? By Julius Braunthal. With an Introduotion by Harold J. Laski. (Gollancz. 75. 6d.) HERR BRAUNTHAL has written two books, one candid, intelligent, valuable,......

Shorter Notices

2. Books which compress the literary history of nearly a thousand years into a few hundred pages (in this case 148 pages) should ai at being informative only, but it is almost......