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... 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 ...
... would want to leave Tahiti and the world's most wonder ful climate to sail 5,000 miles through the Roar ing Forties over the most deserted and unpleasant stretch of ocean in the world to visit Patagonia and the world's worst climate. But that is what ...
... in the world. He is also a real friend of this country's, which does not make him either blind or over-indulgent, but does mean that he has worked to get a real, unsentimental, first-hand and absolutely contemporary understanding of what makes us tick and ...
... heroine copes with this, you must read to see. One could, I think, ask for no better picture of southern rural England than Miss Read gives us: change she does show, but her calmness is reassuring. J. S. Goodall's woodcuts illustrate Village Diary. Peter ...
... knowledgeable countryman, introduces HISTORIC TOWNS OF ENGLAND (Odhams. 12s. 6d.). This pictorial volume takes us on an armchair tour of much interest, and Mr. Vesey- Fitzgerald is a brilliant guide. He helps us to understand how greatly the traffic changes of ...
... century ago Upton Sinclair established a world wide reputation with his exposure of the Chicago stockyards in The Jungle. Since then he has been in the forefront of numerous social crusades. His latest book, THE CUP OF FURY (Arco. 12s. 6d.), campaigns against ...
... fooled. And certainly it takes a foreigner to notice things as to ourselves we take much for granted. He tells us far, far more of Regency England than any contemporary Englishman could have done. The value of A Regency Visitor is double: we swoop directly ...
... half-paralysing blitzes that England was to suffer from that September. This is an exceptional book in many ways, for its clarity, its authority and, not least, for its appreciation of the humour that can exist in England, at least even facing the blackest ...
... vitality. JAMES JOYCE'S WORLD (Methuen. 30s.) is a biography told in terms of place. This is an ingenious device and one that is suited to the life of this restless genius. In an earlier book, James Joyce's Dublin Patricia Hutchins used something of the same ...
... the pages like a Cup-tie crowd, if it weren't that one of the author's talents is for organisation. VALE OF LAUGHTER (Bles. 18s.) is another autobiography, but of a completely different kind. Its author writes of the theatre in England, and about theatre ...
... TENDER DISSECTION by ANGELA MILNE BEING the best reporters in the world, and having for material that wealth of races, types and temperaments, American writers continue to dazzle us with their brilliantly-written studies in human oddity, their genius ...
... CHARACTERS TO CARE ABOUT by ANGELA MILNE MANY an admirable novel will find us reflecting that we are at page 250 and still don't mind what happens to its people. Not so with The World of Suzie Wong, by Richard Mason (Collins, 16s); in fact, the book is made ...