23 JUNE 1939, page 26

The First British Empire

Building the British Empire. Vol. I. By James Truslow Adams. (Scribners. 15s.) IT is no easy task—me teste, who have tried it—to compress into two volumes the total achievement......

Rewards And Fairies

STELLA BENSON might have been the subject of the famous remark about the Irish in The Moon in the Yellow River— "we may believe in fairies but we trade in pigs." Stella Benson......