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The Weight Of China

BOOKS on China come in waves, and the present wave, now swelling fast, has its quotas of apologetics and realism. These three belong to the second category. Strictly speaking.......

Re-assessment

'The Four Feathers' By PETER V ANSITTART W E all have a private library, not exactly Lit., but which, read in childhood, has decisively shocked the imagination. Graham Greene,......

Chess

By PHILIDOR 264. C. G. WATIsTSY (Good Companions, 1922) BLACK (to men) WHITE (8 men) *HrrE to play and mate in two moves ; solution next week. Solution to No. 263 (Shinkman) :......

New Paperbacks.-the Spire. By William Golding. (faber,...

By William Faulkner. (Penguin, 4s.) The Groves of Academe. By Mary McCarthy. (Panther, 3s. 6d.) The Wings of the Dove. By Henry James. (New English Library, 6s.) The Pioneers.......