... Speak to the Earth, by Fivienne de TV atteville (Methuen, 15s.) FEW people can ever have spent five months in East Africa more profitably than Miss de Watteville. Her love of Nature and all the inmates of the natural world is not merely keen it is flaming ...

... moment, to hear Countess Larisch von Wallersee- Wittelsbach, niece of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, speaking with a strong Ameri can accent; but, the Preface explains, American friends have helped her to write her book. She was a ...

... lovely music for him. At the Duke of York's the S.F. or Hangman does not sing and does not even speak until the last few moments of the play, when he speaks shortly and not very much to the point. Perhaps there was not a point. Mr. Frank Vosper had, therefore ...

... One is that she had to wrestle so heroically with the sheer task of speak ing English (frequently she gave me the illusion not so much of having a Teutonic accent as of actually speaking German, with an English word or two breaking through) that her linguistic ...

... still wondering. She makes Frank Davis a reasonable, fairly understandable, fairly vital figure yet he is, comparatively speaking, the failure of the book. A draw would be a fair result, perhaps. If she has almost failed, she was attempting the almost ...

... as books are concerned. Naturally, after Christmas, the reviewer expects a slackening-off in the volume of volumes, so to speak, which the publishers fling at his head. For there is a theory that no one reads anything at all for about two months after ...

... simile and engaging parallel. As a critic of golf- courses well, think of what he says about Aber- dovey year after year. I speak with feeling, as a Man of Harlech. As a point of interest, he considers St. Andrews, Hoylake, Sandwich, and Portmarnock to ...

... thinner, of course. Shrewd blue eyes in a red dish face, huge ears which he occasionally waggles, a baldish head, a very quick- speaking voice do not sug gest the aesthete, do they? Nor does a passionate devo tion to harness ponies, which, nevertheless, fills ...

... this doesn't belong either to the story or to the character. Mr. Laughton speaks it remarkably well, but no better than in my young days every English actor was expected to speak words of this quality, I give all of the foregoing for what it is worth, ...

... Once, in the Yellow Sea, he was one of the only two passengers to come down to lunch. He is rather proud of that. Heifetz speaks six languages, likes dance music very much if it doesn't try to be clever, hates draughts like the plague, and believes that ...

... ditions that a meeting of creditors and the suicide of one of the partners is the result that there is no love-interest to speak of, and that all the action takes place in an office, you might be excused from thinking that Cornelius is dull and depressing ...

... spite of this it is, I repeat, enormous fun, always providing you are willing to believe in naked or semi-naked savages who speak English among themselves in the heart of the African jungle and in their war-canoes sing a version of the Eton Boating Song ...