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Soviet Preludes

Road to Revolution. By Avrahm Yarmolinsky. (Cassell, 25s.) THERE is a vast literature in Russian on the nine- teenth-century Russian Revolutionary Movement, dating partly from......

New Novels

A Walk on the Wild Side. By Nelson Algren. (Spearman, 15s.) The District Officer. By Michael Kittermaster. (Constable, 15s.) AMERICAN novels are often long, incoherent, coarse,......

Why Are They Angry ?

Envy and Gratitude. By Melanie Klein. (Tavistock Publications, 12s. 6d.) MRS. KLEIN, in her new book, explores the origins of two qualities which, as a psychoanalyst, she has......

The Patient Chancellor

THE most remarkable thing that can be said about this book is that it is about the most remarkable statesman of the present day. Paul Weymar was selected by Adenauer four years......