12 JANUARY 1962, page 18

Sick Man Of Africa

Guilty Land. By Patrick van Rensburg. (Cape, 18s., and Penguins, 3s. 6d.) PATRICK VAN RENSBURG has some excellent qualifications for asking us to be interested in yet another......

He Who Must Die

The Story of the Night, By John Holloway. (Routledge, Kegan Paul, 21s.) MIS is really two books. One of them is a short-tempered and orthodox account of Shakespeare's major......

New China Hand

The Wall Has Two Sides. By Felix Greene. • (Cape, 25s.) ABOUT a year ago reports appeared in the papers that during 1960 China had suffered one of the worst attacks of both......