... type of scholar not lacking in the common touch who could put the views of the comrades over to the community. Mr. Francis Williams was for some time Editor of the Daily Herald (and, incidentally, one of the youngest editors in Fleet Street), and* after ...

... Drum-beat, by Patrick Doncaster (William Earl, 9s. 6d.) Keys to Crime, by Richard Martin (William Earl, 8s. 6d.) Futility, My Sinful Earth and The Polyglots in The Collected Uniform Edition of the Works of William Gerhardi (Macdonald, 6s. each) ...

... or so she believes, with Paul: a situation as embar rassing to the Vicar as it is maddening to the jealous Daniel. Ivy seems to have been fairly ready to accept anyone's love, and why she does not marry Daniel, seeing that Paul made no secret of his indiff ...

... little elderly assistant (played by Felix Bressart, of Ninotchka), the flashy wangler (Joseph Schildkraut), a pretty newcomer (Margaret Sullavan), and Pepi (William Tracy), an office- boy of character (mostly bad), ineffable assurance, and something like ...

... deliberate 1 should not care to judge, but The House of Strangers works out as a kind of modern prototype of the story of Joseph and his brethren. The time is the early 1930's the place, New York's East Side the characters, immigrant Italians of the first ...

... JJovel of Paris T he TJew Joseph Shearing Another Egotistical Mother MR. HARRY W. FLANNERY was Mr. William .Shirer's successor as representative of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys tem in Berlin. ASSIGNMENT TO BERLIN (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.) can, therefore ...

... Jesus or Paul? (Skeffington, 12s. 6d.) they buzz busily over the conflicting teachings of the Gospels and Epistles, notably on such subjects as Sin and Woman. The world's so-called Christian churches, he thinks, are not really of Jesus but of Paul, the fanatical ...

... Here is a writer who fuses plot and crafts manship into a nicely balanced blend which results in a noble and powerful book. Paul Marsh, Mr. Gerrard's hero, is a self- made master draper, obsessed by his own achievements. In his youth, he has loved unwisely ...

... skeletons lurking under swagger mock- Tudor. THERE is a skeleton, too, in Miss Ursula Orange's Portrait of Adrian (Michael Joseph, 9s. 6d.) the _ real, secret Adrian as distinct from the Galahad his adoring young sister-in- law imagined him to be when ...

... Rightly Sir William calls this a rough record, for it is no carefully prepared masterpiece but a modestly written description of naval matters for naval men and full of interest. YET another story of France and her sufferings comes from Princess Paul Troubetzkoy ...

... blinded their pilots with spinning mirrors on search lights, camouflaged real tanks in tame lorries. Magic Top Secret (Stanley- Paul, 18s.) is a fascinating account of His ingenious trick work launched from a Cairo H.Q. which had the laugh on an adversary ...

... Hamlet's pain, and the love of Abelard Who, moreover, reminds him You, Mr. Smith, can be sublime. But that is the least of Mr. William A. Younger's themes in The Dreaming Falcons (Hutchinson, 5s.), a volume of verse ranging from Oxford to Carcassonne, pr ...