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The Great Game

ALL honour to that unknown genius of Araby or Cathay who invented chess! But let us not forget another nameless bene- factor—the man who first devised a notation whereby games......

The Abysmal Future

Darkness and the Ltght. By Olaf Stapledon. (Methuen; 78. 6d.) MR. STAPLEDON'S book is concerned with the future of the human race ; but he prefers to present his vision not as a......

Victory Of The Spirit

Moscow '41. By Alexander Werth. (Hamish Hamilton. los. 6d Mn. WERTH spent July, August and. September, ix, in Moscow . He had spent his boyhood in St. Petersburg and spoke......