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New Novels

THE DAY OF THE MONKEY. By David Karp. (Gollancz, 15s.) IT sometimes seems that the novel is turning into a Wailing Wall for Liberals. More and more novels are chewing anxiously......

The Problem Of Japan

WITHOUT THE CHRYSANTHEMUM AND THE SWORD. By Jean Stoetzel. (Heinemann / U.N.E.S.C.O., 16s.) DESPITE her defeat in war and the recent ascent of Red China, Japan remains one of......

Huysmans

THE LIFE OF J.-K. HUYSMANS. By Robert Baldick. (O.U.P., 42s.) THERE are signs of a revival of interest both in France and this country in the French novelists of the late......