... that in the sixteen years since his death, the inventor of Fascism was almost totally neglected by writers in the English- speaking world. Christopher Hibbert's BENITO MUSSOLINI (Longmans. 25s.) goes quite a way in repairing this omission. The author has ...

... Mr. Kirkup was invited to work for two years as English lecturer in a celebrated Japanese university. The book is, broadly speaking, a journal of the time he spent during those years, his impressions and the effect that the strange but to him perpetually ...

... cover many subjects, such as death and rebirth, the nature of man, suffering and life in the world. On all of them the Sage speaks with wisdom and considerable humanity. Some of the dialogues have a humour all their own: Devotee: I have a toothache. Is ...

... a permanent means of establishing contact between jurists from all African states, especially between French- and English-speaking jurists. Osagyefo Dr. Nkrumah. President of the Republic of Ghana, who declared the conference open, said that law, to be ...

... and full of vitality. Mr. Hall writes with considerable gusto and his book is as readable as young leaves are green. DON'T SPEAK TO STRANGERS (Mac- niillan. 13s. 6d. by Miss G. R. McCallum, is another first novel, this time from Australia: a touching, ...

... those who, like Somerset Maugham, J. B. Priestley and Elizabeth Bowen, admire his astringent brilliance. In RAYMOND CHANDLER SPEAKING (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) we have a collection of his letters, the first chapters of the book on which he was working at his ...

... paper-backs, with pride of place going perhaps to the first two volumes of Sir Winston Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE. Both are published by Cassell at 10s. net. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, takes us to the end of the reign of Richard ...

... agree. THE MUSIC MAKERS (Michael Joseph. 21s.) is Mr. Sidney Harrison's book on the lives of great composers from, roughly speak ing, Palestrina to George Gershwin, and it is as readable, in its clearly-phrased way, as many a novel. The author discusses ...

... what it is worth, is claimed as the most expensive black-and-white film ever made. The huge cast includes 57 stars and 1 67 speaking parts. The list is so long that it seems to the jaundiced eye that everyone in the film world has done his bit, as they ...

... involving spying and counter- spying, and he survives its dangers and stresses by a process of either holding his tongue or speaking what is only the simple truth. He observes the new world of secrets, perils and hidden meanings and decides that is meaning ...

... Portugal almost no English is spoken. What Our oldest allies? And then I tried to remember one person I knew just one who could speak Portu guese. But it is a delightful book. First in the list of novels this week, for more reasons than one, is Miss Margery ...

... socialism. Such a fellow can turn the world inside out. All this is mixed with Goebbels' going on and on about his journeys to speak at meetings, his love-life, his endless pessi mism about bestial man. The book ends with Goebbels appointed to the Berlin district ...