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FRED CORNPLOW COMES OUT ON TOP: Sinclair Lewis Writes a Light Novel of Family Life, Indicting America's Younger ..

... Fred Cornplow Comes Out on Top Sinclair Lewis Writes a Light Llovel of Family Life, Indicting America's Younger Generation By VERNON FANE WHEN America's most famous writer decides to produce a light novel in which the sole object is entertainment and ...

Published: Saturday 12 March 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1802 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOKS YOU READ: Northcliffe: An Intimate Biography; Color of a Great City; What's Right with America; With ..

... drawn to the dissection of American civilization. Mr. Sisley Huddleston, in What's Right with America, is in a peculiarly interesting position. He comes to America steeped in Parisian culture, and finds there more to admire than most of his fellow discoverers ...

Published: Saturday 23 August 1930
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1863 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS: Shane Leslie Joins the Ever-Growing Band of Re-Discoverers of America; An Entertaining ..

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS Shane Leslie Joins the Ever Grow ing Band of Re- Discoverers of America An Entertaining B i og raphy of Henry Labouchere, Most Spectacular of Victorians Reviewed by VERNON FANE EVER since Columbus com mitted his famous indiscretion ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1993 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

SPORT, ROMANCE AND THE RUSSIANS: Huntin' and Shootin' Here and in America; An Excellent New Edition of ..

... AN English woman, returned to this country after six years in America, said to me the other evening that London seemed completely changed to her. And completely dreary, she added, rather unnecessarily, I thought. Of course. I agreed vaguely. The bomb ...

Published: Saturday 20 October 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1783 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS--: An Indictment of America: A Superb Guide to English Poetry: A Fine Long Novel: A Ruritanian Romance: A ..

... BOOKS-- An Indictment of America: A Superb Guide to English Poetry: A Fine Long Novel: A Ruritanian Romance A Folk-Story of Distinction By CECIL ROBERTS One bright January night in the year 1926 I came down from the elevated railway in Chicago, and passed ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1932
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2285 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

SERIOUS WORKS OF SERIOUS TIMES: J. B. Priestley's Postscripts: A Modern Macaulay: Sir Charles Harington's ..

... OF SERIOUS TIMES J. B. Priestley's Postscripts A Modern Macaulay Sir Charles Harington's Memoirs And Some War Letters to America --By Vernon Fane I AM very glad to see that the collection of Mr. J. B. Priestley's Sunday night wireless talks has been published ...

Published: Saturday 21 December 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1570 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

MORE BAWDY RESTORATION COMEDIES: The Provoked Wife Mr. Mervyn Johns' Fine Performance Strong Tipple at the Old ..

... Ruth Gordon, who comes from America with the accent that one ex pects, is on that account a little out side our conven tional conception of co's.tume comedy. The conception is a narrow one. It would seem also to imply that America in the seventeenth century ...

TWO SOLDIERS TAKE UP THE PEN: Montgomery and His Chief of Staff, de Guingand, Describe Their Campaigns; Cecil ..

... absence in America, of his natural yearning to return home. Mr. Roberts gives the impression, as he writes, that he is forestalling criticism, thus making some of the 500 pages of this discursive book rather embarrassing reading. And So To America is full ...

Published: Saturday 15 March 1947
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1801 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS FOR ALL TASTES: Harold Nicolson Runs the Ancestral Gamut; Mining and Farming in South America; The ..

... BOOKS FOR ALL TASTES -By Vernon Fane Harold AJicolson Runs the Ancestral Gamut Mining and Farming in South America The Tactics of Bomber Command Lady Eleanor Smith's Romantic Gipsies Aunt Julie's Will AN Irish rebel, vintage 179S, ;s as good a subject ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1943
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1729 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Landscape Gardening

... will be of great interest to English garden lovers to learn something from this book as to how their hobby is progres ing in America, and, perhaps, to learn something from the methods of good gardeners on the other side. The conditions as to soil and climate ...

Published: Wednesday 18 January 1905
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 154 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review