24 MAY 1940, page 19

Stalin In Black And White

THE publication in English last autumn of M. Souvarine's long and detailed biography of Stalin is now followed by Mr. Eugene Lyons' more impressionistic portrait and by an......

Horace Walpole

liorace Walpole. A Biography. By R. W. Kerton-Cremer. (Duckworth. 16s.) IN an article written in 1833 Macaulay condemned Horace Walpole for devoting a lifetime of eighty years......

Misery In East London

East End My Cradle. By Willy Goldman. (Faber and Faber. 8s. 6d.) IN East End My Cradle Mr. Willy Goldman tells the story of the growth of a Jewish boy, presumably himself, in......