29 AUGUST 1952, page 20

Books Of The Week

The Short Story and Its Readers Darling Tom and Other Stories. By L. A. G. Strong. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) Short Stories from the New Yorker. (Gollancz. 15s.) In a stimulating......

In Next Week's " Spectator " Wilson Harris Will Review

Vol. V of Winston Churchill's war memoirs, " Closing the Ring"; Lord Raglan Thor Heyerdahl's " American Indians in the Pacific"; Professor Bonamy Dobree an important new......

A Good German

The Critical Years. By General Baron Geyr von Schweppenburg, (Allan Wingate. 18s.) IT is impossible, I should hope, to put down this book without feeling that its author was and......