... A Week of Life Stories The World of Booths Reviewed By Vernon Fane THREE lives are the subject of this week's books, and three lives more strangely contrasted it would be difficult to imagine. A famous New York novelist and playwright writes her own life story from Kalamazoo, Michigan, to the Connecticut hillside which now luxuriously shelters her; Miss Katharine Anthony has written a study ...

... Charles Lamb Lives Again By VERNON FANE Charles Lamb, to those who know thee justly dear For rarest genius and for sterling worth ROBERT SOUTHEY wrote those lines about his friend not long before the death of the gentle Elia. In his lifetime Lamb was a much beloved figure, and to this day his readers still hold him in the same affectionate regard. There have been greater writers, more ...

... -- Belloc on the Cecils A Disciple of Conrad Compton Mackenzie Does it Again The Alpine Arnold Lunn By CECIL ROBERTS Some years ago Mr. Hilaire Belloc began his task of putting right the history of England. With that began also the task of the critics in putting right Mr. Hilaire Belloc. The difference is all in the point of view. Mr. Belloc's scholar ship is unassailable, but his reading of ...

... -- The Greatest Journalist of them all A Literary Feast from a Great hotelier Boarding-house Mania and Sanity Jerusalem and £50 By CECIL ROBERTS Everyone is saying, Of course it's very wrong of G. B. S. He shouldn't have done it! But a remark like this, explains exactly why G. B. S. has done it. Seventy years of ferocious originality make indiscretion seem the better part of publicity. So ...

... Books By CECIL ROBERTS An Intellectual Giant; A Champion of Compromise A Kaiser Apologist and a New Love Story THERE is a sense in which the novel is the supreme enemy of good literature. It has seduced untold numbers of excellent writers and turned them aside from their true subject- matter to the more remunerative and acclaimed field of fiction. There is, even to-day, practically only one ...

... James R. Ullman Takes a Rest froi Play 'producing, Makes an Amazonia Journey of the Maximum Discomfor and Returns to Set Down the T a. By VERNON FANE NOT a heartbreak, nor a dangerous illness, nor a spiritual crisis prompted Mr. James Ramsey Ullman to set forth on a voyage down the more uncomfortable reaches of the Upper Amazon, but a few printed sentences from those New York critics who make ...

... The World of Books Four Londoners on a Caribbean Is /and Provide the Theme jor Rose Macaulay s 1 IPou Id be Private Richard Chu rch humiliates the Ti^ide Humanity of Charles Pickens Reviewed By VERNON FANE MISS Rose Macaulay has one of those supreme advantages which can never be coaxed or bullied into existence. She is a wit, as naturally and as spontaneously as she is a born writer. This, we ...

... The World of Books Reviewed by VERNON FANE THE late Arnold Ben nett once said that it was practically impos sible for a poet to write bad prose. the compe tence of modern fiction is apt to pre sent a spectacle too often unrelieved from a dead flatness, and it is there fore a pleasure to open a book by the Poet Laureate and find a full- fledged story-- lit by good writing on every page. EGGS ...

... The World of Books A Tragic Little Tale of American Provincial Life Cruising Along the Riviera Michael Arlen, as ever, Writes with Wit and Elegance By VERNON FANE THEY have a hard time in American small towns. If it isn't the long cold winters it's the long hot summers. Or the Women's Culture Club. Or the local tittle-tattle. Life seems far from kindly on those little main streets. THE HEATHS ...

... Eugenie The Empress Who Was Nearly Great Octave Autry's Fine Biography of the Courageous Consort of Napoleon III A Woman of Heart and Intellect THE WORLD OF BOOKS Reviewed by VERNON FANE A WISE cynic once said, None think the great unhappy, but the great. It is fairly natural that, observing beings who have all the advantages of birth, riches, beauty, brilliance, and a position of power, one ...

... The VINTAGE of SIXTY-THREE A Charming Autobiography and Other Literary Matters of the Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS I have to confess that the name Graham Robert son awakened in my mind only the dimmest memories. Was he an actor, an author, an artist, or a society flâneur? I now discover from his book that he has been, in turn, all these, but what really surprises me is that a man with so ...

... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This was due to what was considered to be her indiscretions and to the wittiness and honesty of the book A member of a brilliant family, daughter ...