... Personally Speaking By A Jan Thomas THE TESTAMENT OF JOAD, by C. E. M. Joad (Faber and Faber; 8s. 6d.), is not an inspired work, because Mr. Joad himself says he is not inspired. He is, on the other hand, so intellectually detached that he makes a brilliant ...

... experience is that veterinary surgeons are often wrong too. They will, doubtless, continue to be so until horses learn to speak. D. L. L. .Practical Jumping and schooling, Dy Major J. L. M. Barrett. (Country Life, ios. 6 d.) The Elements of Stabling, ...

... that we owe gratitude. His picture is neither glorious nor sadistic. It is the literate summing-up for millions who cannot speak for them selves. Flanders was vile and muddy, Palestine was less grim but be tween the two fronts there lay, for him, those ...

... as a penalty for doing so, or the knight who actually obeys her Flat-footed fantasy is introduced by the knight refusing to speak when she begs him to, the obvious motive for her begging being that, for sundry Hungarian reasons, she was going to have her ...

... in the past that he is exceptionally clearheaded, we are bound to conclude that, for all the radiance of his brow, he is speaking too soon. In the case of Mr. Landau, it is not difficult to prophesy that he will write another book, and probably more than ...

... Winter Sport is the title of a booklet by Ian Fenwick. Its title speaks for itself. It is published by Cobden-Sanderson, and is full of ribald sketches like this This picture also speaks for itself. The back ground is in rich deep blue Clauschen is in ...

... of the countries he has visited India, New Zealand, the United States, etc. In the last ten years there has been, broadly speaking, an advance in inter national political sense, and one of Mr. Clarke's general conclusions is that the new outlook, very ...

... and film direc tors are only photographers, why didn't they get hold of some natives for the older parts and teach them to speak English just as they presumably taught Little Toomai? Why go to the trouble and expense of taking Mr. Allan Jeayes ail the ...

... g the overbearing and the overruled, and, in a less understandable way, old people. Children are nearer her heart and she speaks their language. Her descriptions of the little brother and sister on hunting mornings, green with fright, feigning eagerness ...

... enjoy Thames Portrait, it has both grace and wit. When the Oxford University Liberal Club wrote inviting Mr. Jack Jones to speak he thought it was a mistake and wrote to the chap at Magdalen College to ask him if he was sure that I was the man he wanted ...

... much of a saint, calmly accepted the sacrifice and proceeded to his Deanery. Mr. Ervine's characters know their own minds and speak them bluntly. His play also has that copiousness which the public especially likes. After so many slight little pieces, which ...

... is a fine and impressionable speaker of verse. Strange that in this piece he should never be better than when he is not speaking at all. In his silence there is depth, humour, romance and poetry. I do not remember to have seen a more eloquent nodder ...