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The Biggest Paradox Of All

The Rise Of Modern Asia. By Ian Thomson. (John Murray, 18s.) Soviet Russia in China: A Summing Up at Seventy. By Chiang Kai-shek. (Harrap, 30s.) THE pattern of the great......

Style And Rapt Fuzz

Conrad: Sea Stories (Typhoon, Youth, The Nigger of the Narcissus, The Secret Sharer). (Hart-Davis, 12s. 6d.) Joseph Conrad and His Characters. By Richard Curie. (Heinemann,......