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Pogrom And Pop

A Victorian Boyhood. By L. E. Jones. (Macmillan, 18s.) WHICH childhoods turn into the best books of memoirs, or form the best backgrounds for novels? Stable and solid ones,......

The Forbidden Country

Tibetan Marches. By Andre Migot. Translated by Peter Fleming. (Hart-Davis, 18s.) NOT even the news that the Chinese Communists have driven a motor road the thirteen hundred......

The Higher S.f.

Best S.F.: Science Fiction' Stories. Edited by Edmund Crispin. (Faber, 15s.) IT is dangerous to praise science fiction publicly, as I have once before found to my cost. Friends,......