23 MAY 1969, page 16

Thunder And Flash

OLIVER WARNER Gordon at Khartum—is there any fresh news? The answer is that while there is little now to be discovered, there is always more to say. For Gordon was an......

New Novels

Freud's boy HENRY TUBE A Family Romance Richard Wollheim (Cape 30s) Termush Sven Holm translated by Sylvia Clayton (Faber 21s) Felix Barbara Levinge (John Murray 25s) When Rain......

Red Hairs In Japan

PAT BARR One of the more extraordinary episodes in the vigorous, acrid saga of East-West contact concerns the activities of the Netherlands East India Company (the Jan Compagnie......