2 OCTOBER 1942, page 18

Poet And Priest

To be candid without giving offence is almost impossible in certain instances, and to review this book from any point of view, but that of Hopkins's adopted Church is one of......

Before Battle

How Japan Plans to Win. By Kinoaki Matsuo. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) IN a recent number of the New Yorker there was a drawing of two prosperous ladies at ease in a New England meadow.......

A Call To America

Prelude to Victory. By James B. Reston. tHeinemann. 78. 6d.) MR. RESTON'S title can be taken to describe an unsatisfactory period before a satisfactory denouement or it can be......