... may we not say human kindness be it but giving a cup of cold water to a prisoner of war or a part of a ration to a refugee, has in itself a taste of that enduring quality which we try to hint at by using such words as eternal, divine, Christ-like ...

... and the terror of the night when the German bombers set Coventry in flames. He takes us from Guy of Warwick to Joseph Chamberlain and does not even forget to tell us of the Ichthyosaurus discovered at Harbury and the six pillared Inigo Jones windmills ...

... would like put things simply to better herself. Instead, she :fts (as though fated) into a world of shady dance- 11s and back-street crime. y-R. Bates has made us feel to the full the \J I ingenuous innocence of Laura also her -^-youthful grace. So much ...

... Henry Samson Physical Culture and World's Champion He was wearing a pair of tiger-skin drawers and his muscles bulged out every which way. He was great. Geordie Mactaggart came, from Perthshire, and David Walker tells us in this book how he learnt to grow ...

... to the general female ego. These matters are germane in respect of The World My Wilderness by Rose Macaulay t Collins, 8s. 6d.), the first book this dis tinguished writer has given us in ten years. I believe most women will greatly enjoy the sharply sad ...

... themselves upon teir per spicacity. A bouquet for Messrs. Macmillan, please. They have now reprinted A. G. Macdonell's England, Their England, (6s.) that impeccable piece of sustained wit, nonsense, humour, detailed observation, and blether without which life ...

... Maryngton and his regiment. He was just too young for World War One, and just too old to be sent overseas for the second. He was a worthy and capable, but not brilliant, ca airy officer, who had no use for machine and was therefore completely out of -lace ...

... after he does nothing to interfere with the perfect happiness of the human lotus-eaters. An old schoolfriend coming out from England is naturally rather shocked by the routine of this queer household. We are to learn later that she has no sort of dramatic ...

... from the engraved frontispiece of Milnes's first volume, is now as familiar to us as the strange, eggshell countenance of Shakespeare from the First Folio. In 1848 in England that face was still unknown. One and perhaps the pre-eminent delight of Mr. ...

... however, the danger of a number of readers knowing Byron only at one remove; through the medium of other, explaining minds. Let us miss no opportunity of direct approach. Such approach is offered by Byron: Letters and Diaries-- A Self-portrait --edited ...

... have since those dates, I imagine, been repeats. Rayner Heppenstall, of the B.B.C., who contributes the general preface, tells us that he wrote The Fool's Saga because he so much enjoyed producing The Hawk and the Handsaw which was, he adds, from the ...

... Two Solo Flights I'J. 9 ITho.V THE records of World War Two have no wilder nor stranger story to tell than that of Sir Basil Embry's battle to outwit captivity in the early summer of 1940. It is set out in Wingless Victory (Odhams, 9s. 6d.) by Anthony ...