20 JULY 1934, page 23

The Prospects Of War

AMERICAN journalists rather enjoy touring Europe and deciding- when and where the next war (war being a charac- teristically European product) will begin. Mr. Frank Simonds......

Chinese Holiday

Lady Precious Stream. By S. I. Hsiung. With a preface by Laseelles Abercrombie. (Methuen. 8s. 6d.) THE sub-title is " An Old Chinese Play done into English," but Mr. Hsiung......

One Of Nature's Germans

Carlyle in Old Age. By D. A. Wilson and D. Wilson MacArthur. (Kogan Paul. 15s.) Tuis is the sixth and last volume of Mr. Wilson MacArthur's monumental life of Carlyle. Though he......