... a dull moment. THE FREEBOOTERS. By Robert Wernick. (Cresset Press 9s. 6 d.) In a well-meaning blurb, the publishers promise us life turned upside down where brawls, black market, rape, getting drunk, spending money, queues at the Paniers Fleuris, intrigue ...

... has been translated by Mr. Eric Northcott. Many were the defects and shortcomings of the Parliament of eighteenth-century England, writes the author, yet it was not only the stage, but also the cradle of great men. Where else in the whole of Europe, before ...

... 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 ...

... dreary that only a stern sense of duty stopped us from switching off the set. Should Hugo von Gerhart, a German film director, leave his native, Four- Power-occupied Berlin and start a new life in England Should his film-star sister do likewise in America ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... twentieth- century property. To him the paper owes its being as a national daily newspaper and register, the epitome of the world designed for the in formation of the whole range of executive, pro fessional and political men and women who, by their calling ...