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... of England's Most Delightful Counties -By VERNON FANE I WONDER how many of the overseas visitors to England in this Festival year will journey into Norfolk to see its beauties and its treasures? And yet it is one of the richest counties of England in ...
... of the cities of the world. For a really gay descrip tion of the country, or, let us say, the southern half of the country, which the Festival of Britain throws open to the foreigner, let me recommend most heartily Here s England (Rupert Hart-Davies 21s ...
... be. The author, in fact, remains cold-bloodedly detached, not even allowing us to like Madeleine, or the old servant, or anyone or anything in the book. She then springs on us an ending which is unexpected, macabre and yet entirely fitting. I recommend ...
... ever had in England, no man can deny; and is indeed a perfect opera: there being this difference only between an opera and a tragedy; that the one is a story sung with proper action, the other spoken. The piece is also noteworthy for its use of scenery ...
... BORROWED TIME. By F. Scott Fitzgerald. (Grey Walls Press 12s. 6 d.) MISS COMPTON-BURNETT is one of those authors who divide most of us sharply into sheep and goats-- the fans who tell you, suppressing their retrospective mirth and pleasure, that there is nothing ...
... well-told story of peasant life and character, the author inviting us to contrast the stupidity of violence and destruction with the old and simple way of the land. Here Charles Humana tells us how Roberto gradually formed ties of affection with his host, ...
... Lady Peck's story may not charm us to a tear, but it does present a very workmanlike compromise f between the supernatural as explained naturally, and the normal, as expressed by a believable group 1 of human beings. Let us now praise famous technicians ...
... personal narrative, is the story of an intelli gent, even an intellectual woman's love-affair with a man from a different world and, if there is such a thing, from a different moral climate. Katharine is young, lovely, musical and erudite. She is married ...