27 MAY 1938, page 42

An Adventure With A Genius By Alleyne Ireland

Mr. Ireland, sailor, traveller author of books on colonial administration, had many adventures before he became a member of Joseph Pulitzer's strange household, a year before......

General Washington's Dilemma By Katherine Mayo

Miss Mayo has devoted all the resources of her talents to exhuming a minor episode in the history of the American Revolution which involved Washington in an awkward, not to say......

Current Literature

• GEOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES By G, H. T. Kimble Our age, which has witnessed a set- back in politics and morals, cannot ridicule the middle ages for being, - as far as......

Dare We Look Ahead? By Bertrand Russell And Others

Things are pretty bad ; just how bad are they ? That is the question• examined by most of the authors of this book (Allen and Unwin 5s.), which is based on the Fabian Lectures......

The English Landscape By Sir William Beach Thomas

Defoe wrote : "Whoever has travelled Great Britain before us, and whatever they have written, though they may have had a harvest . . . yet others may come and glean after them......