24 FEBRUARY 1956, page 24
Post-war Malaya
Tuns is a well written and very well balanced book. While most recent works on Malaya have been either soldiers' reminiscences or politicians' manifestoes, Mr. Perry Robinson......
Class-conscious Comedy
THE TOWN TRAVELLER. By George Gissing. (Methuen, 7s. 6d.) IN late-Victorian prose—Gissing's is a good example—the social channel is carefully marked by little winking signals :......
No Antimony In The Cesspool
HOW CHARLES BRAVO DIED, By Yseult Bridges. (Jarrolds, 21s.) IN 1876, the high afternoon of the Victorian day (income tax, 2nd in the £; divorces, a few hundred in the year),......
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