2 NOVEMBER 1945, page 22

Fiction -

Cannery Row. By John Steinbeck. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) HERE in Tales from Gogol, newly translated from the Russian, are six stories with an introductory essay by Janko Lavrin mad......

What Mass-farming Means

Ill Fares the Land. By C. McWilliams. (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) THE trouble with novels that set out to awaken our social consciences is that, once the excitement of reading......

Tanks In The Desert

Come to Dust. By Robin Maugham. (Chapman and Hall. 7s. 6d.) MR. MAUGHAM was a tank officer in the Western Desert, and this account of his experiences has considerable historical......