Smoxo MAN or Cum The Story of Chiang Kai-shek. By Robert Berkov With illustrations. Houghton Mifin, Boston, G$3.
This attractively produced volume bears upon its cover the legend "Expert, impartial, dramatic. The first really good biography of China's Chiang (Time Magazine)"—and to the feeling of this reviewer, at any rate, that succinct diagnosis epitome izes the virtue of this book.
The author, Robert Berkov, is well known in Shanghai journalistic circles, for he was formerly a member -of the. staff of the "China Press" and from thence he became Manager of the Shanghai Bureau of the United Press Assceiation, being thus in a position to garner the data carefully, from. which he has prepared the pages of this balanced and objective account of the outstanding personality in Chinese affairs for well over the past decade, as also at this time of extreme crisis, The book contains 42 chapters together with a series of thumbnail sketches of the principal Chinese and Foreign characters appearing in its pages, arranged alphabetically, to h has been added a short bibliography of modern works on modern Chinese affairs. It has all been done in a workmanlike and very practical manner, and Mr. Ber-kev has distinctly placed himself on the map of Writers about China and Chinese political affairs.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.