23 JANUARY 1948, page 22

Fiction

MR. GODFREY BLUNDEN, we are told, " was resident in Moscow in 1942 and part of 1943," and, as the action of his novel occurs within that place and period, it has a topical......

The Divine Alexander

Alexander of Macedon : The Journey to World's End. By Harold Lamb. (Robert Hale. 15s.) A MODERN interpretation of the life of Alexander the Great is long overdue, and Mr. Harold......

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THE subject of this intimate memoir was almost entirely unknown to the public. His name never appeared in the newspapers, he took no part in ecclesiastical politics, and he held......