... altogether unusual knowledge of birds in a most palatable form. The Times recognised this, and paid her hand somely for her Nature Notes. Nor can I say that Ordinary Families is a novel for the yachtsman, or for such as go down to the sea in sailing- boats ...

... , I had a stomachful, I had, and I sez to John, I sez: 'Whatever we saw in this nasty mucky ol' place beats me. These nature notes written for a local paper and in a personal journal and edited by Mr. Williamson reveals a sensitive observer and chronicler ...

... man about whom George Moore said that he was the only living writer whose style he envied. B. T.'s weekly para graphs are nature notes a progressive chronicle of the year as it passes in the open air. He writes of harvests and of weather of trees and birds ...

... correspondent, William Boot, one of the Boots of Boot Magna, whose journalistic experience had hitherto been confined to Nature Notes. It was all a mistake not William, but John Boot should have been sent John Boot, the friend of that versatile society ...

... being less familiar with each other, were, perhaps for that reason, on better terms. I am not sure whether Lady Peck's nature notes are always quite accurate. Hedges striped red and white with May, for instance I have never seen them like that, even ...

... eccentric, while their presentation seems to lead to stranger eccentricity still. Once only does the book strike a human and natural note, when a rustic youth contrasts the dental surgery of a farrier and a qualified licentiate. In the comic sock Mr. Pugh succeeds ...

... April Fools at the Play house. Being in time, out of consideration for others, I spent a happy five minutes perusing the nature note on the programme. Most interesting some theatre programmes are tell you what to do if your dog has distemper, how and when ...

... clearly cut in style, our joy would have been unalloyed. But the authoress, Miss W. E. Gunn, but rarely struck this vital, natural note only once before, in the delightful scene with Marjorie Fleming, his child pal, when the great man, at the hand of his ...

... sincere and manly as the handsome English exile. Frances Farmer, defending her commandeered schooner, strikes a clear and natural note, and Lloyd Nolan's smooth blend of cruelty and fanati cism emphasises the mystery of his un charted island. An excellent ...

... itself well to cinematic treatment, and a shrewd wit decorates the dialogue. The play demands an unforced and completely natural note in its interpretation, and herein the older generation is by far the most successful. Frieda Inescourt, as the serene and ...

... an outstanding figure John Howard's study of a tormented mind is sensitive and restrained, and Jean Parker's frank and natural note helps romance to tread discreetly on the stony paths of a stern and often gripping drama. The authors of the original story ...

... business of the Baron's robots. Thus Fran9oise Rosay's incisive and intimate portrayal of Catharine strikes a supremely natural note that seems a decade or so ahead of the hocus-pocus in the puppet- maker's workshop. But the elegant, if bizarre, Baron ...