4 JULY 1952, page 36

Chinese . History The Rise And Splendour Of The Chinese...

By Rend Grousset. Translated by Anthony Watson-Gandy and Terence Gordon. (Bles. 42s.) THE fields of Chinese history are many-acred, and most of its harvesters are slow workers......

Plant-hunting

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