... OUR BOOKSHELF. L. P. HARTLEY. REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. YOUNG ENTHUSIASTS. By Elizabeth Jenkins. (Collancz 8s. 6d.) SO WELL REMEMBERED. By James Hilton. (Macmillan 9s. 6 d.) THE HORSEMAN'S YEAR Edited by W. E. Lyon. Collins 10s. 6d.) THE GLASS HEART. By Marty Holland. Peter Dov/es 8s. 6d.) HOW seldom one comes across a book that has a form and flavour of its own! Many writers strive after the one ...

... By LAURA EYRE. WHEN Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Ealing Studios during the making of Nicholas Nickleby, they both confessed that they hadn't read the novel-- as yet! But they were quite familiar with many of the characters. They knew the rapacious, bullying school master, Wackford Squeers the genial ham actor, Vincent Crummies the lovable Cheeryble Brothers, and ...

... PEACE COMES TO PECKHAM.' ALTHOUGH R. F. Delderfield is a Devon man by long adoption, he was Peckham born, and his expansive comedy must be regarded, in a way, as a son's loyal tribute to a borough seldom hymned. But the precise location does not matter: the important thing is that the play has a firm Cockney core; its author knows his path down the Old Kent Road. Since other plays of his are ...

... THE WELL- DIGGER'S DAUGHTER. THE Well-digger's Daughter, written, pro duced and directed by Marcel Pagnol, with which the Rialto, Coventry Street, followed the phenomenal Les Enfants du Paradis, is very different from its predecessor but none the less notable. Marcel Pagnol, son of Provence, steeped in France's own deep South, has an uncanny knack of putting on the screen the essential ...

... THE DARK WOOD. L. P. HARTLEY. REVIEWED ON THIS PAGE. By Christine Weston. Collins 8s. 6 d.) MRS. TIM GETS A JOB. By D. E. Stevenson. Collins 8s. 6 d.) JUVENILE DRAMA. ,By George Speaight. (Macdonald ISs.) YOU. THE JURY. By Virginia Mather. Skeffington 9s. 6 d.) LOVERS of good fiction have been impatiently awaiting a new novel by the author of Indigo, and here it is. The Dark Wood, however, ...

... . L. P. HARTLEY. PEACE BREAKS OUT is a con tinuation of Mrs. Thirkell's Barset shire chronicles and maintains the high level of social comedy to which she has accustomed us. Most of the characters are very pleasant people. The older ones tend to be eccentric and nice the younger ones, those who have grown up with the war, to be sensible and nice. La ...