5 DECEMBER 1947, page 24

Years Between The Wars

FlAht to Live. By Robert Boothby. (Gollancz. 21s.) ROBERT BOOTHBY, member of Parliament, journalist, broadcaster and lecturer, has written an alive, arresting and provocative......

Thomas Mann

Essays of Three Decades. By Thomas Mann. Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter. (Seeker and Warburg. 21s.) THOMAS MANN speaks of Goethe as representative of those five hundred years......

Harry Of England

WHAT is a proper Englishman like ? Well, first of all he is to be found only in England, for abroad he has a sour face, detesting as he does all foreigners, and this sour face......