Tyrant Of The Andes By Thomas Rourke
Mr. Rourke's life of Juan Vicente Gomez (Michael Joseph, I2S. 6d.), late President of Venezuela, never quite succeeds - in Making that astonishing figure credible. The way of a......
Mind, Medicine And Metaphysics
CURRENT LITERATURE By William Brown Dr. Brown, who is the Wilde Reader of Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford, has compiled this short book (Oxford University Press,......
Man Tracks By Ion L. Idriess
Readers of Lasseter's Last Ride will welcome a new book by Mr. Idriess, chronicler of life in the wilder places of Australia. He is not a journalist ex- ploiting the story......
.the ...oxinden And Peyton Letters Edited By Dorothy...
book (Sheldon Press xis.) is a - seleCtiOn from the correspondence which -passed , between members of the house of - Oxintlen in Kent, and their friends , and relations, during......
Mrs. Uttley Has Drawn Once More From Her Memories Of
childhood days in the country and written a delightful con- tinuation to The Country Child. Ambush of Young Days (Faber and Faber, 7$. 6d.) • will perhaps be too sweet for some......
Ten Days Off
By George Dunn The author of Ten Days Off (Cape, 7s. 6d.) is a soldier by profession, but a writer by nature, and an account of barracks life by him slottld be illumin- ating;......
Dictators By Jacques Bainville
This book (Cape, Jos. 6d:)-,purports to be a survey of dictatorships from Solon to Hitler, presenting .art analysis' of their nature and of the reasons for their occuirence. It......
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