29 NOVEMBER 1957, Page 11

First Overland

The Story of the Oxford and Cambridge Far East Expedition TIM SLESSOR

—Sunday Times. 62 photographs 2IS.

Cyprus

A Portrait and an Appreciation SIR HARRY LUIZE

The author knows the island as a former administrator, as an historian, and as an archwologist. His book is "a lucid and elegantly written story of the bewildering patchwork of the invasions, earthquakes and foreign occupation that make the island's history."—New Statesman Illustrated 2IS.

All My Sins

HANS HARE

The astonishing autobiography of this cosmopolitan socialite, adventurer, and journalist "cannot fail to interest anyone who knew and loved the Europe which struggled for existence between the wars."—Yorkshire Post. "One of the best autobiographies for some years."— MICHAEL HARRISON, The Queen. 18s

Springtime in Shanghai

MABEL WA LN SMITH

The author tells of her blissful springtime of youth in old Shanghai, the pleasure-loving "Paris of the East," and of the city's catastrophic end under the Japanese and communists. She also writes vividly of her life in a Japanese internment camp. Line drawings 15s.

Man is an Artist

JOHN BRADFORD

The story of painting, sculp- ture, and architecture from the earliest times. "A splendid piece of work." — Liverpool Daily Post.

Over zoo illustrations ass. Chiang- Kai Shek's

Summing-up at Seventy

SOVIET RUSSIA IN CHINA The Generalissimo's story of the momentous events of which he was part in his thirty years' fight against Communism. "Will be combed by students for its nuggets of historical information."—New York Times "One of the most detailed records of Stalinist treachery."

—Saturday Review 392 pages 30S.

The Tropics

(The Living Nature Series) DE LA RUE, BOULIERE, & HARROY