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... The Queen who bridged two worlds BY SIRIOL IIUGII-JONES NO ONE, I IMAGINE, IS GOING TO need me to recommend James Pope-Hennessy's enormous, tre mendously enjoyable, masterly and elegantly written official life Queen Mary-- a fantastic book to have produced ...
... ingly surprised. I like looking through Mr. Chaudhuri's eyes which are benign and intelligent and make England seem a nicer place to live in than many of us suspect when it rains all day and all the bus con ductors are in a furious temper. If there is still ...
... earlier history than she has ever guessed. Nothing here of world-shaking import ance, but that, after all, is seldom the purpose or function of a novel and Miss Farrell has done enough for us in writing a highly civilised one. LOVE IN FOUR FLATS (Chapman ...
... myself of nearly all works of art in the known world. I cannot think that anything considerable is missing. Where I have not been in person, I have read and studied. I have heard most of the music of the world, and seen nearly all the paintings. Now this ...
... gardens of Proust's characters, for this is England in the seventeenth century, an epoch when elegance had a back ground of violence and when conversation for conversa tion's sake was little known. The author gives us little information that is new, but her ...
... the beginning of a soaring surrealistic joke, but it loses its nerve before it is through and quite fails to lift us up into a scatty world in which the customer is always right and still gets no sort of satis faction. Nearer to the surrealistic mark is ...
... Alain-Fournier, that remarkable French novi died in the First World War when only on the thresl of world recognition. His novel THE LOST DOM (Oxford University Press. 7s.) is published in World's Classics series, with an excellent introduc by Alan Pryce-Jones ...
... rest of the world. Lor Mr. Dawson s theme here is as much the establishment of Canada as a world power, to be reckoned with in international dealings, as the emergence of Mackenzie King as that country's leader and champion before the world. Mackenzie ...
... Real or Fake? us Controversial Story of Madame Blavatsky JS Ape Balsamo, Count Cagliostro, that adept in Ifficine, chemistry and the necromantic arts, Aced fashionable society with his love philtres \irs of youth, was perhaps the most remarkable itl'jlhe ...
... with rare 1 ness; the love of place which can be so strong in chtj as most of us know. Miss Elizabeth Coxhead has w about a family who live for the greater part of the v' England-- in self-styled exile-- but gather every m together at least once a year in ...
... re-studv an age such as this when science has provided new win the use of which are still somewhat uncertain. Snap, crackle and pop, what 's the gayest breakfast Those words are not unknown to us who take our dt doses of erudition from the commercial channel ...
... timeless world of artificial comedy. The joke they are playing on us is one that can never grow stale. It is that man, by taking the elaborate ritual of society with dead-pan seriousness, is pretending to be civilized. In actual fact he is merely using the ...