26 JULY 1957, page 22

Islam's Sickness

THE author of this very extraordinary record of Arabian life today was a medical officer in the Afrika Korps. He was taken prisoner by us some- time in the course of the Western......

America Vaporising

THIS enormous book (675 pages, of which two' fifths are footnotes) is also an unusually deplor - able book, for reasons which are worth dwelling upon briefly, as they illustrate......

Moderne Poetrie

The Modern Poet's World. Edited by James Reeves. (Hcinmann, 8s. 6d.) I wisit I could recommend these books, because they both have nice print, nice bindings, nice dust' jackets,......