... the Celestial Chorus obliged with the strains of Silent Night on the sound-track; although Christmas scenes are regularly used to point up family reunions and bring a lump into the throat of the susceptible spectator, the cinema, unlike the theatre, ...

... Walt Whitman, and he tells us of Francis Bacon There is chill in the essayist too. It runs up the arms, it leaves one a little sick and shaken. Perhaps nowhere in literature do we more clearly see a mind at work and it frightens us. Mr. Morley packs his sentences ...

... in itself an entente cordiale. Next, a novel from one of the best of living story-tellers, Mr. Nevil Shute. He writes of England, a little, of Malaya during the war and after it, at greater length, and of the Australian outback, most of all. He tells ...

... little about the playwright himself. Mr. Dane Chandos, who once wrote the most entertaining book of that year in Abbie, has given us a further chronicle from his Mexican home, which he now runs as a guest-house for those lucky enough, in my view, to travel ...

... Whitington. both young Australians of a post-war vintage for whom it would be quite natural to write a chapter called The World's Greatest Batsman and Why. Being young, Australian, and one of them being Keith Miller, they are naturally also irreverent ...

... more than a shade pet uliar. Hitler as War Lord by Franz Haider (Putnar i, 3s.: ought to convince us one and all that the Gen: General Staff was an ill-used body of uprig it, G.3 fearing men with not an evil thought or dee d am: them. Undoubtedly this is ...

... added, I must be content with her name only the social gulf between us is probably too wide for it to be wise for us to make friends. Also, like those who delight in kittens but have no use for cats, Lewis Carroll made a clean sweep of any little girl friends ...

... great ability and was personally likeable. He had a brilliant record at the Harvard Law School, and was later appointed to the U.S. State Department in a capacity which allowed him to accompany' President Roosevelt to the Yalta conference. Nevertheless, in ...

... (Hodder and Stoughton. ios. 6d.) shows another kind of American history in the making, this time a little, growing town in New England from the time of the War of Independence for nearly a hundred years. Anne Miller Downes writes with an earnest sincerity that ...

... novel, Abide With Me (Seeker and Warburg, ios. 6d.), which deals exhaustively with the problems of the mortuary art. In England and other European countries, an undertaker is apt to be an undertaker, a member of a respectable but not highly publicised ...

... Trevor iAlle?i AS summer ripens to autumn most of us have gathered memories of interesting and lovely places, so may we talk of a few? First, Ajijic, Mexico, Dane Chandos's idyllic Village in the Sun. He tells us in a sequel to that enchant ing book-- House ...

... sympathetic characters down to a dachshund are of German or Austrian descent and incomprehensibty persecuted during that part of World War I in which the United States were concerned. There axe horrors a-plenty from rapes to beheading, but Dr. Mitchell eventually ...