... THE author begins with a quotation from R. L. Stevenson I am told there are people who do not care for maps and I find it hard to believe. From the earliest maps, and particularly those covered with drawings of nymphs and strange monsters and with cryptic lettering as to the conditions found in far distant lands, down to the most modern plan ning of a garden city there is a charm to which ...

... . By MICHAEL ORME. AN addition to London's Continental cinemas, the Berkeley (late the Lansdowne News Theatre), has opened with an adapta tion of Gerhardt Hauptmann's play Vor Sonnenuntergang. Significantly re-christened DER HERRSCHER, this German prize film unfolds the story of a struggle for supremacy between a wealthy widower, who finds renewed happiness with his young secretary, and ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. STAR MAKER is the most ambitious novel, if novel it can be called, that I ever read. Not only does Mr. Olaf Stapledon seek to justify, or, at any rate, to explain, the ways of God to man in a general way; he goes much further. He sends his soul into the infinite (only the universe is no longer regarded as infinite) to learn its secrets at first hand. While his body lies ...

... The Little Doclor By Alan Thomas IN We Are Not Alone (Macmillan; 6s.), Mr. James Hilton presents the modest little doctor who lives in a small cathedral town, is devoted to his work, bears his troubles patiently, and neither knows nor cares which side his bread is buttered on. The story of how he was summoned to attend a little German ballet dancer, how he brought her to his own house, how on ...

... Green Memory Your Honour, Sir, 'the woods at Currawn does be swarmin' with woodcock. Let ye and the other gentlemen come over.-- P. Murphy. Two days later, in the heart of Connemara, in spite of an overdose of Irish enthusiasm that topped the bag with Widow Connor's turkey, 15 couple of 'cock were accounted for. Captain Drought, the author, has a pet theory that more woodcock nowadays nest ...

... Mr. Hall, it appears, is one of the few Englishmen who have witnessed the strange ceremonies of the Penitentes, a brotherhood of flagellants, whose hold over New Mexico to-day is so powerful that the United States Govern ment prefer not to interfere. During Lent, processions of men scourging themselves with whips circle over the sand hills by night to the weird accompaniment of a shrill pipe ...

... Mediterranean Memories but not the kjnd of memories that you or I, with a wink or a knowing nod, might imagine. Major Ponder's cruise was on board a womanless troopship no wives, no nurses, not even a sympathetic stewardess. After a little skirmishing on Salisbury Plain, where the author was midwife to the brigades of artillery on spring and summer manoeuvres, we shift to Plymouth and giggle ...

... After the amount of rubbish which has been foisted on the public recently it is a relief to read a book on horsemanship in which the author displays some common sense. Major J. L. M. Barrett has entirely rewritten his Practical Jumping and Schooling. Major Barrett very rightly does not seek to lay down any hard and fast rules for a seat which every rider must adopt. Rather he argues that, ...

... Young Men Who are Young Men Barn Dance and Terminal Alexandre Dumas on the Stage The Open Air Theatre Again Satyr, at the Shaftesbury By PLAY BILL LONDON has seen better troupes than the Philadelphia Ballet (now at the Hippodrome), good though this is. But they have one attribute which is very definitely in their favour--that the young men in the company do not induce an itching ...

... THE YACHTSMAN'S ENGLAND A Delightful Addition to the English Scene Series The Merchant Navy White Ants REMEMBERING the pleasure of reading the first two volumes in The English Scene, it was with a distinct feeling of anticipatory delight that I picked up The Yachtsman's England. And the feeling was further en hanced by the memory of some of Mr. Frank Carr's previous books on yachting. Let me ...

... The World of Books Four Londoners on a Caribbean Is /and Provide the Theme jor Rose Macaulay s 1 IPou Id be Private Richard Chu rch humiliates the Ti^ide Humanity of Charles Pickens Reviewed By VERNON FANE MISS Rose Macaulay has one of those supreme advantages which can never be coaxed or bullied into existence. She is a wit, as naturally and as spontaneously as she is a born writer. This, we ...

... . By MICHAEL ORME. IT is doubtful whether the general public will regard so shattering an experience as WE FROM KRONSTADT (a Russian film introduced to London by the Film Society and now presented at the Academy) as enter tainment for a summer's day, or any other day, for that matter. It is, moreover, impossible wholly to ignore the picture's obvious bias, yet this documentary drama of the ...