... Films ol the Day Sark Background for an English Film By George Campbell IT looks extremely odd, I know, but British film producers seem to be taking an interest in the British Isles. While the enterprising Capitol Film Corporation are maintaining the old traditions by sending an expedition 2500 miles into Darkest Africa-- the Sahara, to be exact-- two or three other people sire taking a chance ...

... Books: New Novels Worth Reading Reviewed by Arnold Palmer BOOKS, like people, often succeed for the wrong reasons, or at least for their weak nesses and not their strengths. It may well be that Mr. Nigel Balchin will be a little confused by the congratulations which he is likely to receive for his new novel, Lightbody on Liberty (Collins, 7s. 6d.), since those congratulations will usually be ...

... YVIERE all heresies presented as 1 amusingly and with as much interest as is Mr. P. B. M. Allan's in Trout Heresy, then there would be no heresy, for we should all be of one mind. We heartily agree with his con tentions that the trout is not a brainy fish, and that it is high time we admitted the fact, even though it deprive us of our stock excuse for an empty creel. The arguments he uses are ...

... AN EXPLORER OF THE SEA BED And an Excellent Study of Horses ''TWENTY YEARS UNDER THE SEA'' is a fascinating new book, with, the author, J. E. Williamson, as a first-rate inventor, a daring diver and explorer, a skilful film director and even actor He gives us in this book a resume of remarkably varied experiences that are highly interesting, sometimes hair-raising. He succeeded in ...

... They Laugh That Win UNCLE JAMES SHADBOLT walking down St. James on New Year's night was hugging very gloomy thoughts. The comparison between the pre-war and the post-war days always seemed to haunt his mind and depress him intensely. No discipline, no reverence, no stability He hurried on. No general standard of value left, by which men measured great ness except perhaps money. (Bed and ...

... 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 ...

... Benh am's Book of Quotations Otudents, public speakers, writers, and all lovers of O literature have need at varying times of a book of quotations and it must be regarded, indeed, as an essential work of reference without which no library is complete. Of publications in this category pride of place falls to Benham's which Messrs Ward Lock and Co., Ltd., have just issued in an enlarged and ...

... Airs. Aslor's Horse Reveals Some of the More Ebullient Extravagances of (fie American Scene A. F. Tschilfely Leaves the Wild Tracks of the Andes for the Bridle-paths of England Reviewed, by VERNON FANE MR. Stanley Walker is a distinguished American journalist who was once city editor of the New York Herald- Tribune, went on to one of the tabloid papers to see what it was all about, and is now ...

... The World of Books C. R. Benstead Traces the History of the Atlantic Ferry Dr. Struensee, Central Figure in a Danish Political Drama By VERNON FANE THE other day, when the Queen Mary steamed slowly up the Hudson after her first Atlantic crossing she was given a memorable welcome by the most hos pitable nation in the world. Since the home-coming of Lindbergh New York Harbour had not been the ...

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS THE CASE OF MR. J. B. PRIESTLEY An Examination of a Notable Novelist By VERNON FANE NOTHING succeeds in annoying some people as much as success. In 1921 a young Yorkshire man came down from Cambridge determined to make a living by writing. He was well equipped, for few men of his age had a sounder knowledge of the whole range of English literature. Also, as they found on the ...

... Reviewed by VERNON FANE Douglas Jerrold Analyses the Forces which He Believes are Leading Europe to the Brink of Destruction Frederick Niven Writes a Vital Novel in Scottish Dialogue Doreen Wallace's Latest Achievement TO READ Mr. Douglas Jerrold's challenge in THEY THAT TAKE THE SWORD (Bodley Head. 6s.) is to be reminded of the time when the pamphlet was a potent and powerful weapon in the ...

... : History Wobbles a Bit in Muted Strings Ian Hay's Credible Picture of Public School Life By PHILIP PAGE WHY muted? If ever there was an unmuted play it is Muted Strings at Daly's. In the first place it is all about Beethoven, who was neither mute nor inglorious nor a Milton, and, like the majority of musical and unmusical geniuses, did not (save as an artist) know much about restraint. Also ...