23 JANUARY 1953, page 28

New World Arising. By Harry Hopkins. (hamish Hamilton....

World Arising. By Harry Hopkins. (Hamish Hamilton. 18s.) Mn. HARRY HOPKINS, a British journalist, has recently returned from an extended tour of South-East Asia, that is to say,......

Change And A Seemingly Typical Insecurity Dominate These...

Ileana's first memories are of the headquarters town in the frontier valley to which her father's army was driven in 1916 when he led Rumania against Germany after succeeding......

The Amazing Amazon. By Willard Price. (heinemann. 18s.)...

Amazon. By Willard Price. (Heinemann. 18s.) MR. WR.LARD PRICE challenges his readers by the choice of his title, but it is certain that anyone not familiar with the literature......

Shorter Notices

MRS. BONE'S HMV of Oxford is probably better suited to the reader in bed than the eager tourist, though its format might be uncomfortably large for either. She assumes a good......

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