... momentarily to such Continued, on page 64) On left Derek Walker-Smith Books Continued from page 43) a break, we have buckled-to immediately in an effort to fashion a better world for posterity. In all the welter of reconstruction now under weigh, none is more ...

... mountaineers has become a centre for skiers. Until the rail way was made up the valley from the main Simplon line at Visp, it was more or less cut off from the outside world during the snow months. But it is yet May 1946, and here, on the Gornergrat heights ...

... that has been done time and again? Yet who shall say it wasn't pleasant to hear again from Dover a message like c Jorge Berroeta was at one time only half a mile from the English coast And does not this suggest the heart of England regaining a steadier ...

... subsequent issue to picture the world as it reels drunkenly towards the unknown future. The purist might ask why the Editor has chosen to call this new feature the Sketch-Book. Could it not just as well have been Note-Book, Scrap-Book, Memory Book or even a Diary ...

... alone an Aintree one, had them all stretched for dead two fences from home, the acting honours of the piece, I think, must go to gallant little Lough Conn. He cut out the work almost from the start, and he was well clear after crossing Becher's, over which ...

... beginning of time and so it will be, world without end. And in the bride's home at Streatham or Putney there are the presents a mug from Uncle Tom, a tea-set from Aunt Mary, a cocktail-shaker from the best man and a clock from the ...

... their one-day strike by insisting on holding a debate during the recess. Th y journeyed from the backwoods and the brushwoods, from the Highlands and the plains, from the fens and the moors. The Government was shocked and said so, but the peers didn't cars ...

... Jersey Act. This enactment laid it down that no further, or existing, American strains, which could not trace untainted descent from the original mares in the Stud Book, could be considered thorough bred, and it followed, therefore, that they must have the ...

... Requests being recorded on bookings sheets from which the daily schedule is prepared. On right: Preparing the daily schedule from the bookings sheets. The large bookings sheets are attached to a roller from which they can be read off quickly by the typist ...

... {Continued on page 628 From the Editor This is. as Elizabeth Bowen explains on the adjoining page the last article she will write for us on books. Readers will I know wish me to say on their behalf how very sorry they are at her departure from these pages. I ...

... Palace not in the petrol-free limousines of diplomacy, but at best in a taxi. Or on foot. They are as legion, from World War One and from World War Two. There is a house in London now where you may see the Imperial Eagle of Russia displayed as if the Czar ...

... supply has also now been taken care of. Val Radio, for instance, are exhibiting a set which will run off voltage from 50 250, provided from private generating sets, or even car batteries. The same firm also have a projection model, which, instead of the ...