10 JANUARY 1936, page 24

The Age Of Discovery

IT is easy to picture a great period of history, but not so easy to imagine it. A true imagination of such a period as the discovery, conquest and settlement of the New World,......

See China And Write

Secret China. By Egon Erwin Kisch. (Tho Bodley Head. 8s. 6d.) China Changes. By G. J. Yorke. (Cape. 10s. 6d.) LIKE most books called Secret China, Mr. Kisch's collection of......

Independence—in Blinkers

The Press. By A. J. Cummings. (Bodley Head. 3s. (id.) Tnis volume is one of a series " on problems of today viewed in the light of the changing ideas and events of modern......