13 MAY 1955, page 26

New Novels

WILLIAM CONRAD. By Pierre Boulle. (Seeker and Warburg, 10s. 6d.) IT is difficult to describe the extraordinary power of Canal in Moonlight. Among the rest of the week's novels......

Medieval Cornwall

MEDIEVAL CORNWALL. By L. E. Elliott-Binns. (Methuen, 35s.) IT is probably true to say—though only at the risk of inducing apoplexy all the way from Berwick to Brighton—that......

A Study Of Xenophobia

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