1 APRIL 1938, Page 6

If I occasionally draw attention in this column to some

forthcoming, or just published, book it is more in the intere: of potential readers than of the writer. In that spirit let me commend unreservedly Insanity Fair, by Douglas Reed, which is making its appearance this week. Mr. Reed ha; for the last ten years been one of the ablest British journalists in Berlin, and then in Vienna, and his book (devoted mainly to what he saw and did in those years) is a brilliant picture of doomed democracies and relentless dictatorship.