... This quotation, taken from the first Ameri can newspaper, Public Occurences is part of the preface to one of the two best books of the week. AMERICA GOES TO PRESS (Harrap. 10s. 6d.) is a kind of scrap-book of newspaper cuttings from the time of the Boston ...

... The World of Books Reviewed, by VERNON FANE OF all the direct results of this Coronation summer in publishing, the most agreeable so far has been the Coronation scrap-book, WHEN VICTORIA BEGAN TO REIGN (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.). Hiss Margaret Lambert ...

... Twilight of the British Monarchy. By An American Resident. Is. Back From the U.S.S.R. By Aiv'rd Gide. 2s. 6d. WITHERBY. Tante Rebblla's Saga A Backvelder's Scrap-book. By C. R. Brance. 7s. 6d. WORLD'S WORK LTD.-- Three Died Beside the Marble Pool. By Carl M. ...

... drawings of sitters whose work has stirred Sir William's admiration, and who range from Viscount Allenby to Cecil Day-Lews, from Sir John Reith to Sir Rabindranath Tagore, and from Sir Austen Chamberlain to David Low. The drawings are accom panied by pen-portraits ...

... Tree, who tells that their scrapbooks and sheets of music are bound in the same vivid and heartening colour. During his lifetime Mr. Alan Parsons was a devotee to the art, for with its devotees it is nothing less, of the scrapbook. He would sit at a long ...

... artistic leanings very different from his elder brother, who was an intimate friend of the famous Captain Rohm. Ludwig is banished from Germany, returning there disguised as a Lett in order to rescue his old tutor from a concentration camp. The two of ...

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... is of generous proportions and amply illustrated, may evoke nostalgic pangs from members of the Duke's own generation, and occasionally, perhaps, some supercilious smiles from the 1937 crowd. Mr. Neal Harman's novel, Rebellion (Arthur Barker 7s. 6d.), ...

... value of good period decoration (with song and dance) in a play like this. Here is a Victorian and Edwardian Scrapbook, with lusty echoes from the music-halls, and with lady pioneers of cycling rationally bloomered, with a vintage motor-car and a host ...

... in the Civil Service his spare time he devoted to the compilation of a scrap-book con taining passages of literature of which he was particularly fond, press cuttings, extracts from letters and the like. A selection of these cuttings now appear in this ...

... imaginary tale. Professional craftsmen of all sorts, from foreign correspondents to successful dramatists, from best-selling novelists to society ladies, have been moved to record their experiences from the cradle onwards. A review of the past year will ...

... natural and undramatic beginning, the gradual heightening of suspense as the plot proceeds from the comic to the bizarre, and from the bizarre to the sinister, and from thence to the fatal these are handled with an unemphatic restraint as refreshing as it ...