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Stalin : An Inadequate Biography

Stalin. By Nikolaus Basseches. (Staples. 18s. 6d.) IN his preface to Stalin Herr Basseches has set out frankly many of the difficulties which confront an intending biographer of......

A Little Master

The Best of Saki. Selected and with an introduction by Graham Greene. (Bodley Head. 6s.) HECTOR HUGH MUNRO, who was born in 1870 and died fighting in France in 1916, enjoyed......

Mahogany And Rosewood

yictorian Furniture. By F. Gordon Roe. (Phoenix House. 21s.) WHEN the war ended, like many hundreds of others who could not afford period antiques and did not want Utility, I......