... THE WORLD AND THE FLESH by ANGELA MILNE IMPATIENCE is a possible reaction to Justine (Faber, 15s), but not boredom. Lawrence Durrell writes round and about the city of Alexandria; there, he says, is his real heroine, that antique heap of splendour and ...

... cent, of the nitwits of the world united behind us Why, indeed, if the nitwits are united, if they are, in fact, nitwits But what if they aren't I cannot speak for other countries, but I don't believe Hollywood knows its England very well. In the course ...

... Ambassador to the World Booh Reviews E. F. Knox GENERAL SMUTS (he did not like being called Field-Marshal) was the philosopher-statesman. But he was also a well-tried soldier and a very acute lawyer. One would have to search the history of the world for a long ...

... The Queen who bridged two worlds BY SIRIOL IIUGII-JONES NO ONE, I IMAGINE, IS GOING TO need me to recommend James Pope-Hennessy's enormous, tre mendously enjoyable, masterly and elegantly written official life Queen Mary-- a fantastic book to have produced ...

... ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND Milton Waldman's Brief Biography When we speak or write of the Elizabethan age-- and there is a strong inclination at the outset of a new Queen Elizabeth's reign to glance back across the centuries-- we think in terms of the spacious ...

... soup- and-fish, days of long ago, spring in Park Lane, with a spot of Piccadilly. Does Mr. Wilding perhaps miss England as much as England misses him CINEMA CHARLEY MOON Max Bygraves plays the young country boy in Reginald Arkell's story, who becomes ...

... ingly surprised. I like looking through Mr. Chaudhuri's eyes which are benign and intelligent and make England seem a nicer place to live in than many of us suspect when it rains all day and all the bus con ductors are in a furious temper. If there is still ...

... renounced the world and loves his young pupils. Thus the tale is as direct and unembellished as The Vicar of Wake field indeed, reminds one of its lucid artlessness. It is also deeply enjoyable. T^NJOYABLE is, again, the first term I would -L-r use for The ...

... described a method of making phosphorus from bone ash, but it was not until 1844 that white phosphorus came into general use in England and that Arthur Albright began his researches, which led him to the slaughter-houses of Galatz in search of raw material ...

... stringencies of a small dissenting sect, his characters, for the most part, belong to the Church of England. It is a long time since this background has been used with effect, but Mr. Blakiston knows it from matins to evensong, from vestry to church hall. His ...

... with the survivors of a shipwreck cast up on a desert island. He does not need to remind us that there are desert islands left in the world, and not only atolls used for atomic bombing practice, for like his Mr. Justice Sheilbron, who conducts the enquiry ...

... GERMANY FACES A WORLD IN ARMS Winston Churchill Presents the Fourth Volume in His Epic of the Second World War Bringing the Story Forward to the Days of Alamein FROM volume to volume, in massive prose of Churchillian grandeur, Mr. Winston Churchill's ...