BOOKS to read: Four novelists' to-day
... BOOKS to read Four novelists' to-day Mr. Huxley's to-morrow DISCONTENT.-- Our dreams and our circum stances, says Mr. George Moore, are often in conflict. It is not, perhaps, a very original remar ...
... BOOKS to read Four novelists' to-day Mr. Huxley's to-morrow DISCONTENT.-- Our dreams and our circum stances, says Mr. George Moore, are often in conflict. It is not, perhaps, a very original remar ...
... There are certain annuals which are atj indispensable to the adult as the Boys' Own is to the child. Who's Who, for instance, which in its 1932 edition (Black 50s.) has added anoth ...
... AFTER THE FLOOD.-- The Bible is full of beautiful themes for plays, and now that Obey with his Noé has given an impetus to Biblical playwrights as fresh as the impetus given by Maurois to bio ...
... WOMAN AND WAR.-- Although wars are always popular with the participating nations once they start, I have some times thought that zeal would run even higher if the casus belli could be as simp ...
... WHO'LL WRITE A WAR PLAY:-- I wonder whether there is anywhere a playwright courageous enough to write in time of peace a play frankly in favour of war? I don't suppose there is; and if there ...
... A. P. H. AGAIN.-- There comes a time in the life of every humorist, or almost every humorist, when it is remarked with dolour, in which there may be a tinge of satisfaction, that he is not as ...
... HARD TIMES FOR CRITICS.-- it is pretty safe to say that never have there been so many Christmas holiday shows in the London theatres as this year. So vast is the number that the computations ...
... LOVE A LA MODE-- It would be interesting to know whether the general standard of love-making among men and women has improved, or, failing that, whether it has in any way altered, since Hol ...
... GENTLE SCOTT.-- The centenary of the death of the author of Waverley is hard upon us. No doubt it will be celebrated with appro priate rites, and not only in his own land or among his ow ...
... LUSCIOUSNESS.-- Although it came just too late to ring in the new year with its opening peal, Bow Bells at the London Hippo drome was the first big show ol' 1932. lhat it may attract, by virt ...
... A. P. H. AGAIN.-- There comes a time in the life of every humorist, or almost every humorist, when it is remarked with dolour, in which there may be a tinge of satisfaction, that he is not as ...
... WHO'LL WRITE A WAR PLAY:-- I wonder whether there is anywhere a playwright courageous enough to write in time of peace a play frankly in favour of war? I don't suppose there is; and if there ...