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Our Bookshelf: THEY CAME WITH THE CONQUEROR; DEATH IN A DARK POOL; USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY; THIRTY STORIES

... relief at the glory of its happy ending. She showed, besides, a feeling for other-world affinity, a delicate relish, may one say, for being well and truly haunted, convincing us that a lot goes on between the root down in the earth and the highest twig that ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1226 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

A Film Magician's Testament

... anything he has to tell us is worth listening to. We rejoice that his REFLECTIONS ON THE CINEMA have now, in a serviceable translation, been published in England by. Messrs. William Kimber, price 18s. This book, he is careful to tell us, is not a history. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1786 | Page: 41 | Tags: Review 

ANCESTOR OF SIR WINSTON

... Even here, however, there is to be no peace: Saxon England is on the eve of its last stand. Nowadays we take the Norman Conquest for granted. The Fourteenth Of October makes us realize how bitter for England it was to be conquered. Our Saxon ancestors (for ...

Published: Wednesday 08 December 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1315 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

The Cheetah on The Hearth

... His latest and long-awaited novel, THE WORLD IN THE EVENING (Methuen 12s. 6 d.), could not, I think, be a clearer example of his adherence to the values of the Old World. This may need pointing out, for The World in the Evening is, in its framework, in ...

Published: Wednesday 07 July 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1434 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

Art

... collection is the finest left in England. The paintings will be mainly of landscape and surely no one has ever looked at the natural world with such (Continued overleaf on page 48) Art Continued from page 46) ecstatic eyes ana snown us so engaging a picture of ...

Published: Monday 01 March 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 237 | Page: 50 | Tags: Review 

THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF YOUTH: The Findings of a Young Don Provide an Interesting and Thoroughly Documented Story; ..

... of the finest fast bowlers the cricket world has ever known, and the author's own particular hero, W. J. O'Reilly, has written of him as the same unspoilt person as ever, and of his great counterpart in England's team. Alec Bedser. No cant or prejudice ...

Published: Saturday 05 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1853 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

at the theatre: Down Came A Blackbird (Savoy)

... boyish grace that no wonder the hard woman of the world who happens to be in Cairo marks him down for her own. No wonder the popular secretary with the disfigur ing nose distrusts the hard woman of the world and distrusts her even more when her employer announces ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 742 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

The Rocky Hill Tragedy

... cannot fail to do, it makes fresh, universal, human discoveries it is thus of interest, as literature, to the rest of the world. This time, Mr. Penn Warren embarks upon an experiment his BROTHER TO DRAGONS (Eyre and Spottiswoode 15s.) is described by ...

Published: Wednesday 19 May 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1497 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

Boy Who Stopped Bump In Night

... saved the world from imminent, absolute destruction. It had been in this manner: Johnny Trevrose's father and sister Sarah subscribed to an obscure Cor nish religious cult which had (it claimed) inside information that the end of the world would take ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2179 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review 

A Russian Patriot

... opened up to him, also, the enticing unknown world of the arts This, he charmingly tells us, broadened my outlook in Russia I did not know a single writer, artist or actor. There is, he adds, con sidering England, no other country where the ruling few mix ...

Published: Wednesday 21 April 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1629 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

VICTORIAN ROB ROY: The Indefatigable John MacGregor

... adventure, so well communicated, puts his work in a class apart. From Rob Roy let us turn to Rabbie Burns, not the immortal poet of often incomprehensible language, who used some 1,200 dialect words peculiar to the Scottish Lowlands, not to mention a compromise ...

Published: Saturday 06 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 893 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review