11 APRIL 1952, page 22

Detection And Mystery

THIS is rather a Beta-Plus collection, with good but not outstandin2 books from many hands, old and new. By any canons Agatha Christie deserves precedence, and Mrs. McGinty's......

One View Of Chiang Kai-shek

ONE could as well prove Sycorax and Caliban excellent civil admini- strators as convincingly fulfil the task Mr. Maclear Bate has voluntarily assumed. After forty days on......