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... H The Threat of a New War The Legacy of the Last Reviewed by Arnold Palmer IT is easy to guess that Mr. Beverley Nichols might be hurt by the suggestion that he is, presumably, growing older. But at least one can hasten to console him with the assur ance that he shows few signs of growing up. His ingenuousness, conscious and unconscious, persists; and it is a mercy that it does, for otherwise ...
... Odd Volumes Buck's Book: by Herbert Buckmaster (Grayson, 15s.) THE author of this autobiography, while still of schoolboy age, fought in the Boer War. During the European War, he served with the Blues. He has been the husband of two famous actresses, and the founder of more than one famous club. For something like a quarter of a century he has been one of the best known and most popular of ...
... Vol. 11. By William Rothenstein (Faber Faber j 21s.) SIR WILLIAM ROTHEN STEIN'S memoirs form one of those rare works in favour of which I am pre pared to put all other reading on one side. Many people, I should say, feel as I do my copy of the first volume holds an exceptionally repre sentative collection of the thumb-prints of my friends. The ordinary man or woman is interested in painters, ...
... Books: New Novels Worth Reading Reviewed by Arnold Palmer BOOKS, like people, often succeed for the wrong reasons, or at least for their weak nesses and not their strengths. It may well be that Mr. Nigel Balchin will be a little confused by the congratulations which he is likely to receive for his new novel, Lightbody on Liberty (Collins, 7s. 6d.), since those congratulations will usually be ...
... The lvion's Share By Phyllis Pottome MARTHE loved the solid earth. There was something reassur ing about its immovable sur face. You could not fall off it, you could not upset it, you did not have to think of it at all, except for a brief, fleeting moment as you crossed a motor haunted street. Not that Marthe Girard feared her precarious balancing upon the air. She would not have been one of ...
... ON the back of the dust-cover of Finch's Fortune (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) this novel and Jalna and Whileoaks are joined under the heading Chronicles of the Whiteoak Family in three volumes. The description gives, no doubt unintentionally, an impres sion of finality not supported by Miss' Maro de la Roche's new book. For I cannot believe that the story of the Whiteoaks is ended. This magnificent ...
... Qtage 'Door Admittance Theatrical T^ecoliections of what a the Public wants T^e Arnold ed by Palmer STAGE-LIFE is like school-life in its ability withhold its essence from writers. Attempts to describe the actor's year, to capture its flavour, are even more numerous than attempts to reconstruct schooldays, but they are for the most part equally unsuccessful. Although actors and actresses ...
... The Sons of Mrs. Aab, Apartments to Let, Dawn's Left Hand, e Sons of Mrs. Aab, by Sarah Gertrude Millin. (Chatto partments to Let, by Norah Hoult. (Heinemann.7s.6d.) Dawn's Left Hand, by Dorothy Richardson. (Duckworth. Three JVomen MRS. MILLIN'S book is, in my opinion, not her best. Still, being by her, it is a good book; and it is only because, as a creation, it lacks some of the astonishing ...
... Books: Two Great Women and a Clever M an I\eyiewed by ARNOLD PALMER^ WHEN I was at school, instruc tion in English History had a way of stopping when it reached the battle of Waterloo and returning again to King Alfred and the Early English lady who had been looking forward to her tea Palmerston, Melbourne, Peel, the Crimean and Franco-Prussian wars, even Gladstone and Disraeli, were all ...
... Books T^eviewed by ^dl{NOLT> Palmes The Traveller Teturns Teal S\ews versus the iA (j iv s T e e I THERE is-- as somebody must surely have observed before now-- no place like home. This explains why there are people who cannot bring themselves to leave it, and also why there are others who cannot stand it for long. We are all familiar with those men and women who, wearying even of Glasgow, ...
... Fiction for Jill MOST of the novels mentioned above are by experienced novelists, but not all the writers run true to form. Mr. Evans, of course, continues his life long attack on the character of the Welsh; and Mr. Beresford, concluding his trilogy on the Hillington family, is as sound and readable as ever. But Mr. Phillpotts has departed from his accustomed patn. tie still writes about ...
... Historical fhfovels The Stalking-Horse by Rafael Sabatini (Hutchinson, 7s. 0114 The Gun by C. S. Forester (Bodley Head, 7s. 6d.) God-Intoxicated Man by E. G. Kolbenhayer (Ivor .Nicholson ...