... We have received the yearly edition of Raceform for the Flat Racing Season of 1937. This book, which is issued in weekly form, has, with its reliable notes on running, become an established favourite with racegoers. The yearly edition contains also the weights for the Free Handicaps and other useful information. {Raceform Publications, 3s. nett.) Books for Sportsmen ...

... Pelissier 1938 Sir Seymour Hicks in good form at the Lyceum Pdlissier's Follies of 1938 (Saville, 8.30). THE temptation to reminisce sentimentally over the original Follies must be resisted by such as remember them. I do happen to remember them, and it may be that the hot blood of extreme youth caused me to laud them to the skies. That feeling still remains, but I am not going to allow it ...

... The Floating Line for Salmon and Sea-T rout. Some Easters ago Mr. Anthony Crossley, during the Parliamentary recess, went to the Upper Dee to catch salmon. The river was low, the weather very cold, and the trip looked like a fiasco. But at Mr. Crossley's hotel there was one angler, younger than them all, who returned nearly every day with a fish or even two. He was extremely slow. He couldn t ...

... FRED ASTAIRE VERSUS THE RUSSIANS Really Good Dancing in Top Hat The Garbo Again and Two Share a Dwelling Bv PLAY BILL J PROBABLY the excessively cultured, the intelligentsia, the superior persons who attend the Russian Ballet and speak in learned terms about its performances, turn up their noses at Mr. Fred Astaire. But Mr. Astaire is not only comparatively but actually as great a dancer as ...

... WHEN HAIG WAS ONLY TOO GLAD TO BE RID OF THE LOT The Arrest of F. E. Smith REVIEWED BY HELEN GARDOM IN Mr. Duff Cooper's brilliantly constructed book he deals with Haig's life at Oxford, under Kitchener in the Sudan, with French in the South African War, and his Indian experience, but the most thrilling part of his life is from 1914 onwards. Mr. Duff Cooper has not tried to show Haig in ...

... K/1 R- CLEMENT has written an unusual murder story which pivots persistently, like a dramatic critic, round the Bar. He has certainly captured the flavour. When a rather superior King's Counsel is found murdered in the fountain of the Middle Temple, we are astonished to learn from the ingenious detectives that this man has lived deep in the snares of human emotions. It is a gripping tale, well ...

... Volpone (Westminster, 8.30) Ben Jonson (I wish people would stop calling him sane had more red blood in his little finger than Tchehov had in the whole of his system. There has never been a more full-blooded play than Volpone, and after over 300 years it is very much alive and kicking. It would have been a bit too lively for the Censor had it been written by a living dramatist, and words are ...

... Riding and Hunting Major Hugh Pollard's latest work is also titled Hard Up on Pegasus, and this is perhaps the apter name of the two, for it is to the poor man that the author appeals. There is more sound common sense in this book than in a dozen we have read lately and considerable humour as well-- incidentally, we know Spanish, or at least the word which Major Pollard uses in connection ...

... Danger is My Business This is the most exciting book I have read recently. It's about diving, by a man who makes the bottom of the sea his workshop. John D. Craig describes to us how he has made films of sharks, whales, octopi, and the dreaded manta ray. He has searched for gold, too, below the sea, and seen things which we, on the land, can only dimly imagine. But this isn't just an adventure ...

... VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY A Yachting Voyage of Exploration Round Devon's Coast Wilfred Ewart Looks at England How to Live your Life in the Sudan BETWEEN the prison bars of bricks and mortar, of factories and cinemas, steals a messenger from the sea, a fresh ocean breeze, alive with the smells of brine, of rope and tarry ships, of seaweed and heather-covered cliffs. In the first chapter of Dr. ...

... It is interesting to watch the voracious black-backed gulls at work when the tide is out and the crabs lie up near the surface of the mud. No bird not' even a hawk has keener sight than the saddle-back, which, seeking diligently along the shore, among sand pools upon the fringe of the tide itself, detects the mere flicker of the eye of a crab whose body is completely covered, while any ...

... Alone Through the Forbiddei Land East of the Caspian Sea lies ai enormous tract of land, 1,500 mile or more across to the far westeri borders of the Chinese Republic. A land of deserts, fertile valleys, moun tain ranges, which few white men hav ...