25 SEPTEMBER 1942, page 18

An Anglo-arab Accomplishment

Arab Command. By Major C. S. Jarvis. (Hutchinson. 18s.) THE almost land-locked State of Trans-Jordan, which is bordered by Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine, is in the......

The Village Carpenter

" ... The land no longer supports its people. The labour formerly expended on the soil has drifted to other occupations: the youth who in the old days would have taken his place......

Fiction

Night Work. By John Stuart Arey. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 9s.) Grace Before Meat. By Winifred Blazey. (Michael Joseph. 8s. 6d.) Ariadne Spinning. By Eleanor Green. (Cape. 7s.......