... -- AN old friend of mine says he has seen the Boer War, the Great War and the Great Bore War, which is a good beginning you will allow. By the time you read this our ennui may have been bombed; Stalin and Hitler may have synchronized their violations of Finland and the Nether lands, while, according to a certain Lady Blimp, something sinister will occur in Norway. Encouraged to be more speci ...

... By GUARDRAIL RACING news doesn't make very interest ing reading these days though one small item caught my eye the other day, to the effect that Sir Abe Bailey had retained Michael Beary to ride for him next flat-racing season. I don't know what constitutes a flat racing season but if, as the Nazis say, we can't starve them for thirty-one years, the next flat-racing season may see Michael ...

... WITH SILENT FRIENDS-- continued Love on the Stampede. And the same readers will equally enjoy Mr. Dornford Yates's new novel, Gale Warning (Ward Lock 7s. 6d.). The same readers perhaps a bit younger. For love here is stampeding all over the place, and there is abso lutely no time for mere cooing. You see, the hero, John Bagot, and the heroine, Audrey Nuneham, met over the murder of a mutual ...

... From MICHAEL ARLEN MY DEAR ATALANTA-- You complain that I do not send you news of London, and that, while you are working your fingers to the b. in the country, and while I am merely twiddling in London, I might as well make it up to you for being a wife only in name by writing you something to read. Of course, owing to the war there are any number of wives only in name to be seen trotting to ...

... Whether the bit of Thames sea was really whipped up by the wind, or is a bit of the wash of another vessel, has not been definitely transmitted, but that useful craft, the River Emergency Patrol Boat, looks as if she might take one in brown.' The Herring Fleet has not been as busy as it should be, but let us hope that the English herring-catchers' appeal to the Secretary of State for War may ...

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... FRANCES DAY IN MANCHESTER The famous revue artiste and Billy Bennett during their show in the North. These two stars are appearing at the Manchester Palace and are giving much of their spare time to the entertainment of the Forces THE STATION STAFF ENTERTAIN THE TROOPS At Waterloo Station, the staff give a concert for the benefit of the troops in the Y.M.C.A. canteen FAMOUS RADIO STARS WITH ...

... . GOVERN MENTS make the best neutrals; children are the worst. In between there ain't no such animal. The most candid sight 1 've seen in Scandin avia was the urchins of Bergen mimicking some 200 Japs as they followed them down the streets Japanese who had fled from Berlin after the signature of the Russo-German Treaty. As I left Bergen before the Russo-Jap pact was signed (and the Japanese ...