5 JULY 1940, page 24

Fiction

AT a moment when brutality, cynicism and corruption bestride the world more arrogantly than ever in human history, it is well, and refreshing, to find time to read in those......

French Background

The Development of Modern France : 1870-1939. By D. W. Brogan. (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) THERE is a certain tragic appositeness in the appearance at the present juncture of this......