7 AUGUST 1953, page 19

Japanese Outlook

SOME miles from Tokyo, among the villages, one of the liveliest and most resourceful schools in the Fat East attracts many visitors. It IS called Jiyu-Gakuen, or The School of......

Sex-war Sociology

The Fon and his Hundred Wives. By Rebecca Reyher. (Gollancz. 16s.) THE FON or Bncom, who would daily sit on his mountain-top throne outside his village of Laakom, was (and......

Game Without Guns

The Overloaded Ark. By Gerald M. Durrell. (Faber and Faber. Animal Heaven. By Alastair Scobie. (Cassell. 25s.) South African Eden. By Lieut.-Col. J. Stevenson-Hamilton.......