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Books Of The Week

Success Story of a Novelist , A. E. W. Mason.- By Roger Lancelyn Green. (Parrish. 21s.) Wnii an engaging personal modesty and in a spirit of affectionate admiration, Mr. Roger......

In Next Week's " Spectator " Sir Norman Birkett Will

review ' ord Macmillan's " A Man of Law's Tale " ; R. J. Cruikshank Spectator Harvest ; and Sir Ronald Storrs " The Travels of lbn Jubayr," translated and edited by R. J. C.......

Amphibious Operations

Generals and Admirals. By John Cresswell. (Longmans. 18s.) AN island Power can only exert its military strength against an enemy by first gaining command of the sea and then......