... deals in cold facts and figures. There are 17,000,000 adult women in this country. For the first time in history Britain has conscripted women for war service, and at the moment about 9,600,000 women have been registered for National Sendee. Although the ...

... admirable translation by John Rodker is the sequel to Pity for Women, the second volume of a trilogy attacking young girls. We have our own misogynist in Mr. Somerset Maugham, who merely hates women. M. de Monther lant goes much further. He pursues them in ...

... opinionated. Among other things, he takes a gloomy view of women employers. He is firmly convinced that one of the reasons why clubs and colleges so seldom change their staff is be cause the women em ployers are the cause of so much unrest. (The italics ...

... mother, he grew up to be an uncouth and lonely boy. Sent abroad to do the grand tour, he was impressed by Louis XIV's Languedoc Canal, which spanned France from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean. Jilted by the famous Duchess of Hamilton, he turned to the d ...

... In rather the same way, his preference for plain speaking is not always an aid to truth. Sometimes (as in the scenes where women confide the qualifications of their sleeping partners) it gives an air of unreality. To clear away the undergrowth of verbal ...

... although a more likely result would have been a medal from the Women's Purity League, her life story in the Sunday papers, and a starring-contract in big-time vaudeville. She went to the Women's State Prison, a darksome place frequented by celestial choirs ...

... second claw of Hitler's formidable pincer movement aimed at the capture of the Indian Empire, not to mention Egypt and the Suez Canal. Malta was within three weeks of target day, the day when the island fortress would have had to capitulate simply because ...

... They made them by ripping through bedrooms, kitchens, court yards without compensating the owners. There should also be a new canal! They dug it by grabbing every able-bodied man they saw and giving him a bowl of rice for twelve hours' labour. They used it ...

... blonde who doesn't under stand, the tender brunette who does, and, above all, the mother, the proto type of all such loving women. Possibly the two best creations are the young man's uncle, a casualty of 1917, whose head wound gives him the recurring illusion ...

... general attitude towards sex is typical of some one who has had no experi ence of it. But the relationship between the two women is subtly imagined and cleverly presented and the climax is superb so just, if looked at from the standpoint of Iveen's mother ...