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Men, Food, And The Future

World Population and World Food Supplies. By Sir John Russell. (Allen & Unwin. 50s.) The Challenge of Man's Future. By Harrison Brown. (Seeker 5c Warburg. 21s.) EXTINCTION has......

British Mediaeval Art

Painting in Britain in the Middle Ages. By Margaret Rickert. (The Pelican History of Art. 42s.) ONE of the essentials about the art of the mediaeval period, whether Saxon,......

Encral Cordon. By Lord Elton. (collins. 25s.) Nor Even The

`stern Cromwellian figure' of Field-Marshal Mont- gomery and, the pious tight-lipped host of his imitators after El Alamein can efface England's cherished caricature of the......