... America's Civil War The Conflict which Convulsed Half a Continent To attempt to write a history of the American Civil War, the war between the States, in one volume is in itself an act of courage which can stem only from deep enthusiasm for the subject ...

... The Age of Roosevelt The Opening Volume of a History of Modem America the Breton Scene Childhood in Colorado a First Novel of Unusual Merit Mystery and Detection MR. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER, JR., Professor of History at Harvard University, opens his THE CRISIS ...

... Great Medieval Ruler Two Books on Voyaging Under Sail Doctors as Killers Strongly Written Novels Professional Humorists of America FREDERICK II OF HOHENSTAUFEN was a many- sided genius, who, not without reason, was known as Stupor Mundi-- the wonder of ...

... The Far-Off Nineteen-Twenties Michael Stewart's Nostalgic Story Other New Novels, with Settings in Britain, Ireland, America and Hong Kong Some Lively Thrillers IN A USE OF RICHES (Gollancz. 13s. 6d.) Mr. J. I. M. Stewart wafts us back to the early '20's ...

... Volstead Veterans in America The Prohibition Era in the United States An Admiral Joins a Literary Fashion Chiang Kai-Shek Reviews his Chances Epilogue to Peter Pan WHEN in their wisdom the law-givers of the United States passed the 18th Amendment-- the ...

... paid for charms and divinations are noted from time to time in country villages and industrial towns, both in Europe and America. However, witchcraft has long since ceased to be the matter of serious public concern that once it was, and most people find ...

... Northcliffe's rest less journalistic genius, and there is no doubt of his own admiration for him, but Northcliffe's work in America as Chairman of the British War Mission, his work as Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries, does not receive the attention ...

... the network we know to-day as a national crime syndicate. No writer has followed the course of events in the big cities of America more closely than Joseph F. Dinneen, for a quarter of a century a crime reporter on the Boston Globe. In UNDERWORLD U.S.A ...

... Cool Million and The Day of the Locust. They are much more than bitter, and often very funny, satires on his contemporary America, for West was possessed of a profound sense of compassion. Perhaps the reason for him not having been recognised until now ...

... his enemies labelled a rather dirty b. For years he had warned the Government of the mger of French expansionism in North America and uthward, and much of his advice proved sound. On e evidence of official archives in North Carolina and ivate papers at ...

... novel The Mandarins (Collins, 18s), with which Simone de Beauvoir has won the Prix Goncourt and golden opinions in France and America, is here to give us a long close look at the effect of the war on Parisian intellectuals. Beginning at that point in 1944 ...

... effective translation into English is the work of Irene Ash. America's slimming industry is the subject of Gerda Rhoads's novel The Lonely Women (Wingate, 13s. 6d.). This book, I gather, has swept America, where slimming devotees number untold thousands, and ...