29 MARCH 1963, page 25

Bantu, Boer And Briton

Occasion for Loving. By Nadine Gordimer. (Gollancz, 21s.) IN 1944 John Kumalo, the politician in Alan Paton's novel, Cry the Beloved Country, spoke fo r a generation of Africans......

My Son The Frontiersman By Ronald Bryden .

L SLIE FIEDLER is probably known to English readers as the man who defended the Rosen- bergs' execution, stuck up for McCarthy as the heir to William Jennings Bryan's corncob......