13 NOVEMBER 1964, page 22

First Person Singular

Winter's Tales 10. Edited by A. D. Maclean. (Macmillan, 21s.) THE little magazine era died here not long after the last war and with it one of the heydays of the short story in......

The Dragon And The Devils

The Opium Wars in China. By Edgar Holt. (Putnam, 30s.) China and the West, 1858-1861. The Origins of the Tsungli Yamen. By Masataka Banno. (Harvard and O.U.P., 60s.) 'PROUD and......