... CELEBRITIES in CAMEO No. 133 The Countess of Warwick Potted by Charles Gay ROSE WARWICK'S life to date is exactly that of the heroine of a properly luscious Edwardian novel. Lovely daughter of the best-looking young couple in pre-war London (her father was a very gallant soldier, and was killed in the first few days of the war, while her mother, Lady Rosabelle Brand, is still extra ordinarily ...

... : By A. G. Macdonell IT used to require courage, as well as old age and vast experience of men and affairs, to write your auto biography. Nowadays it seems to be the usual thing for young men or women who have written half-a-dozen novels and cannot think up a plot for a seventh, to sit down and pour out to a presumably eager world the story of their lives. Usually the result is exceptionally ...

... Some Sp ring f^ovels a nd a few Everlastings T^ev iew e d by zA^nolv GENERALLY we overrate or under rate the art of other countries, the different voices and accents giving an air of great originality to what is often quite old and hackneyed, or obscuring for us the meaning of what is really new. I have just been reading Round Trip, by Don Tracy (Constable, 7s. 6d.); and, whatever the ...

... K/l AJHR FAIRFAX-BLAKEBOROUGH is not unused to writing, which may account for the engaging manner in which prominent personalities of the Turf are here sketched. Here is a book of racing from the inside. We can meet jockeys, stewards, owners and trainers, whose names are familiar to all, through Major Fairfax-Blakeborough's kind introduction. The bald announcement that Gordon Richards failed ...

... PROFESSOR LOW'S book is written for children. It is a story in which the hero (aged 16) and his twin sister ride their bicycles into a bus, and (emulating Alice) become transformed into molecules in the water of the radiator. A discussion takes place between them and the other molecules in the water, and in the oil of the engine. Presently, still molecules, the twins are transformed to steam, ...

... AUTUMN FOLIAGE UNDER the inspired title of Autumn Foliage Lieut. -Col. Cyril P. Foley gives us his wholly delightful and enter taining reminiscences. Col. Foley has by right that rare gift to which, alas, so many pretend but few possess-- the art of raconteur. His memoirs are personal without egotism, witty but never malicious: and his observations, though they cover fifty years, are ...

... THE MAN WHO BUILT 2,000 BRIDGES Telford's Life by a Great Engineer of To-day REVIEWED BY HELEN GARDOM SIR ALEXANDER GIBB, the eminent engineer, and his firm are responsible for the building of the Kincardine bridge, now in construction over the Forth. One hundred and twenty-five years ago John Gibb had become one of the principal assistants to the greatest engineer of all time, Thomas Telford. ...

... jV] R- MAX GRUHL is one of the many neutral observers who have written up the Italian-Abyssinian crisis. After dis cussing the causes of the dispute the author seems to say that Italy has a tough proposi tion to put through. Some of the things that have been written about Abyssinia have left me vaguely wondering if Mussolini has read them too. But I do not think that this par ticular book ...

... The Wooden Pillow a Story of Japan before the Industrial Revolu tion An Outstanding War Book by an American Reviewed by VERNON FANE I SUPPOSE it must be inevitable, with the development of the modern newspaper, that the literary field should be invaded by books which depend for their effect upon high-speed action, and what is loosely called realism, but which some people call rough stuff. ...

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS Reviewed by VERNON FANE Berta Ruck Describes How She Brought a Hundred Heroines Through Their Vicissitudes Aiexei Tolstoi Writes of the Confusion of the Early Days of the Russian Revolution ASPIRING novelists-- and their number is legion --will find much to interest and, I hope, to encourage them in the lively story of her own life and work which Miss Berta Ruck has written ...

... Reviewed by VERNON FANE LIKE many other good haters of shams, shibbo leths, bunk, graft, and ballyhoo, Mr. Sinclair Lewis has been called many names in and out of his own country. So it does not surprise me to learn, from the depths of Blooms bury, what he is not. He is not, they say, a novelist; merely a propagandist. In such terms poets and novelists have been driven into exile from this ...

... DRAMA of the WEEK Ivor Novello's Latest Play Not Up To Standard Cecil B. De M i lie Butchers English History By PHILIP PAGE IMPROBABILITIES matter as little in comedy as they do in farce provided their entertain ment value is adequate. In his new play at the Haymarket, Full House, Mr. Ivor Novello makes a peer, who is President of the Divorce Court, marry an elegant middle-aged woman who runs ...