19 SEPTEMBER 1952, page 20

A Law Unto Himself

Codd's Last Case and other Misleading Cases. Reported and Edited by A. P. Herbert. (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) "Two rights may well make a wrong" (per Lord Mildew in The Queen v.......

Books Of The Week

Burma Today Golden Earth. By Norman Lewis. (Cape. 18s.) MR. LEWIS, whose account of his experiences in French Indo-China showed him to be a tireless, resourceful and perceptive......

In Next Week's "spectator" Professor Geoffrey Barraclough...

"Shorter Cambridge Medieval History"; Dr. Thomas Jones, C.H., writes on a book of "Welsh Country Characters"; and J. M. Cohen discusses a new volume of Stendhal's letters.......