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Occupied Japan

Popcorn on the Ginza. An Informal Portrait of Post-War Japan. By Lucy Herndon Crockett. (Gollancz. 15s.) IN Manila about this time four years ago, with all his landing-craft......

A Great Tenor

John McCormack. By L. A. G. Strong. (Peter Nevill. 15s.) " LEONARD. D'ye know what's wrong with that book ye wrote about me ? " Yes, John.' So do I' His head and shoulder ,......

Fiction

The Dark Peninsula. By Ernest Frost. (Lehmann. 9s. 6d.) SOME miscellaneous " don'ts," if I may, for novelists:— Don't be possessed by ideas, even by unspoken ideas. To adapt a......