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REVIEWS: SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

... has much information and many unusual view-points to give on them. Mr. Gielgud accompanied the chairman of the American Red Cross to a conference in Tokio, and visited the Viceroy at Delhi. The purely native side of life, however, receives adequate, ...

Published: Saturday 03 November 1928
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE FIRST KISS, AT THE NEW OXFORD; SINNERS, AT THE FORTUNE; CLOGS TO CLOGS, AT HAMPSTEAD

... itch. He was a very desperate villain, who smashed every law in the Decalogue before he came full circle. And there was a Red Cross nurse who gushed platitudes on millicnaires and morals between cigarette puffs while two sisters suffered all the ills that ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1160 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The Romance of Books--Old and New

... Then arose the question of ownership, and that was gracefully settled by the MS. going to the auction-room for the British Red Cross. Possession is the grave of bliss, observes Mr. Newton, in one of his wise asides, but the wisdom can hardly app!y to that ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

AT THE SIGN OF THE CINEMA: WHEN FLEET MEETS FLEET

... quality, and lends an attractive sheen to the shadoW- pictures that pass across it. A DOG OF THE REGIMENT. Rin-tin-tin as a Red Cross dog behind the German lines, eventually saving the life of an American airman. The film is based on the canine star's own ...

Published: Wednesday 26 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1484 | Page: 90 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Observer and The Times

... character as that of Lord Northcliffe. His direct work in propaganda and in such matters as The Times fund in aid of the Red Cross deserve all praise but as time went on he became more and more intolerable to his staff, and especially to its chief. More ...

Published: Saturday 27 January 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1939 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The Romance of Books--Old and New

... Then arose the question of ownership, and that was gracefully settled by the MS. going to the auction-room for the British Red Cross. Possession is the grave of bliss, observes Mr. Newton, in one of his wise asides, but the wisdom can hardly app!y to that ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1412 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: A Psychological Novel

... Anglo-Saxon letters. 1 have read it again without the original in a little volume issued by Sir Israel Gollancz for the British Red Cross Society, printed by George W. Jones at the Sign of the Dolphin in Gough Square, Fleet Street. T noted the other day with ...

Published: Saturday 17 January 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2050 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Author of Obiter Dicta

... by J. T. Hackett (T. Fisher Unwin). The book is published at 12s. 6d., and the profits, we are told, will be paid to the Red Cross Fund. Mr. Hackett has a pleasant taste in the byways of literature. Come of his quotations are in my own book, as, for example ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1920
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2033 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: The Future of R.L.S

... poem of thirty-five lines, sold for £100 in New York the other day. A copy of this manuscript was given by Mr. Hardy to the Red Cross sale during the war. The poem, reprinted in Satires of Circumstance (1914) as Men Who March Away Song of the Soldiers, ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1999 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Political Guesswork

... Sir Robert Hudson he writes that his eminent success in the financial control of the greatest of our war charities, the Red Cross, clearly marks him for high office. The writer antici pates as an alternative to the present ministry another coalition ...

Published: Saturday 30 July 1921
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2115 | Page: 24 | Tags: Review