... never know what you may be signing away, she said. When I left her hotel room (it was banked with blossoms like the Chelsea Flower Show), she pre sented me with a single lily on a 5-ft. stem. I appreciated the souvenir, but to this day I remember the nuisance ...

... Caryl, was still there, dressed in a long, flower-patterned dress that might have belonged to her grandmother, and the setting that Sutton had arranged for her-- an old, flower-patterned curtain backdrop and a flower- patterne bedspread on the floor-- v. still ...

... child's happiness but to an extremely readable book. The World of Books-- A CHELSEA CHRONICLER: Richard Edmonds, for seven years Assistant Editor of The Sphere, is the author of Chelsea from the Five Fields to the World's End (Phene Press. 1 2s. 6d.). The ...

... BY-STREET MARGERY SHARP'S new novel, The Eye Of Love (Collins, 13s. 6d.) sports on its jacket a red, red rose. Truly, an early flowerer in the fiction flowerbed, 1957. Miss Sharp starts the year off well, for herself and us-- here's an unorthodox love story ...

... be amusing, enticingly she explains, to show you how Mr. T. S. Eliot and Sir Alan Herbert might collaborate in an adaptation of East Lynne. We rehearsed the sketch; it was not amusing; and we shall not show it. This technique of apology works curiously ...

... together a number of distin guished and scholarly writers who endeavour to show the diffusion of Greek culture through the centuries. Dr. R. W. Moore, the Headmaster of Harrow, shows the origins ol Greek influence Dr. C. H. V. Sutherland writes on Greece ...

... than one by Miss Sharp. There is a lightness of touch and a gaiety about her work which goes well with sunshine and early flowers and an occasional edge to her observations which has something of the sharpness of an April wind. Her new book is again concerned ...

... Smiths. He was a man of quite extraordinary gentle ness and kindliness that showed itself from the moment of our first meeting. I had gone to his tiny one-room flatlet in a Chelsea block to inter view him one winter morning and found him amusing his charlady's ...

... Julian Slade and Miss Dorothy Reynolds, having to replace the astonishingly long- lived Salad Days at the Vaudeville with a new show, might have done well to ponder the worldly wisdom of this austere rule of authorship. The replacement turns out to be a close ...

... The man who couldn't win Anthony Cookmcin MR. ROBERT BOLT, WHO WROTE THE successful Flowering Cherry and has another new play, The Tiger and the Horse on its way to the West End, takes risks with A Man For All Seasons at the Globe. Not only is it historical ...

... also the will and the patience to write and go on writing in hope and in poverty He broke away from business to struggle in Chelsea, to be a reporter in Doncaster- from Doncaster to travel in Mexico, from Mexico to sail to Singapore. Is he going to have ...

... memorable pictures of wartime Whitehall. Reade s will remember how in The Masters and its successor The Nt it Men Mr. Snow showed himself as portrayer of men at work, an i analyst of professional relationships, with the rivalries and/or loyalties these ...