7 JUNE 1940, page 26

The Statesman's Year-book For 1940 Has Been Abbreviated...

Hitler. Austria had gone from the 1939 edition ; in the new volume Czecho-Slovakia and Poland still appear, but in their new status they call for less space than in their old.......

Wales England Wed. By Ernest Rhys. (dent. 155.)

IF and when the literary history of the last fifty years comes to be written in the tranquillity of the two thousands, many of our present-day pundits will assuredly be......

Modern Humour. Chosen And Edited By Guy Pocock And M.

M. Bozman. (Everyman's Library. 2s. 6d.) This is an anthology drawn from the work of the better known English professional humorists of today, with a few pieces written in their......

The Spectator Competitions No. 39

ALMOST everyone who has the habit of reading attkches par- ticular value to some book which, though neither unduly difficult to obtain nor essentially appealing to an eclectic......

Report On Competition No. 37

COMPETITORS were invited to perpetrate original " schoolboy's howlers " in connexion with any five of ten given sentences and phrases. Some of the phrases are generally......