... WAR BOOKS and the PARIS THAT WAS Goring Gets It Wrong Again The Empire at War A Lucky Australian Ship A Woman Reporter's War Modigliani, Kiki, Picasso and the Rest -By Vernon Fane IF we are to believe the words of the bemedalled Goring, (in this case there can be no reason to doubt them), the Germans on entering this war made one of their habitual mis calculations. Never again, said Goring ...

... Vivid Accounts of the Nazi Scourge William L. Shirer's Berlin Diary The Polish Angle A Professor Witnesses the Subjugation of Tforway A Third Issue of Modern Reading -By Vernon Fane I WONDER how many people could have forecast with any accuracy the course that radio would take in this war. By that I do not mean the develop ment of radiolocation and all those kind of things, but of ordinary ...

... The LIVES of MEN in the PUBLIC EYE A Biography of Lord Halifax The Story of the Sassoons Dr. Rauschning's Counter -Tiazi Philosophy By Vernon Fane AS long as there are famous men, people will want to know about them, and to read about them. So wrote the author of the recently-published biography of such a man. Modern publicity methods and the development of newspapers and magazines into gossip ...

... THE THEATRE IN WARTIME The Festival at Stratford-on-Avon and a Brief Review of London's Shows. By PHILIP PAGE IT has been remarked that if William Shakespeare could have attended his own Festival last week, Stratford-on-Avon under a black-out would have sur prised him. It would not. There are many things about wartime Stratford which would have caused him surprise (among them, I think, certain ...

... Three Novels in Varied Settings Yorkshire Sagas and Russian Eccentrics Mr. Lloyd Douglas's J\[ew Book Bv Vernon Fane THERE are some who complain that the re gional novelist is too much with us. Late and soon; getting and spending they lay waste their powers; and all that sort of thing. It is a poor line ol criticism. The novels of Trollope or of Hardy do not suffer from the limitations of ...

... THE LITERARY f LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. I AM always aware of a strangeness in the novels of Mr. Joyce Cary, and, trying to analyse it, I find it comes partly from the quality and partly from the attitude of his mind. The quality and the attitude, I suppose, are really aspects of the same thing; the first has the greater effect on one while reading the book, the second when reflecting on it. ...

... Reviewed by Philip Page NEARLY a year ago, when things in London were difficult, to say the least of it, there was a boom in ballet. The Vic-Wells Ballet, orchestraless, drew crowds to the New Theatre, and have recently had another successful season there, with an orchestra, albeit a little one. They even produced a new ballet, Orpheus and Eurydice (which was about the dullest thing ever did I ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. WE have learnt, in The Prime Minister, that Disraeli interested him self, amongst other things, in a Bill for Public Baths and Wash-houses. I n .The Young Mr. Pitt, we shall pre sently see Robert uonat piaying at Brooks' Cltib a game called Hazard, that was the forerunner of America's modern craps shooting. Currently, in LADY HAMILTON (Odeon). we discover that ...

... The Wanderer, Ballet (New) WHEN a modern ballet seems to be more than ordinarily puzzling, a programme note usually informs us that the theme is Man- kind wrestling against Fate (very unkind). We then listen to a familiar symphony, such as Brahms's No. 4, or Tchaikowsky's No. 5, and wonder why the theme should be inter preted by the excited leaps and bounds of some athletic young men and by ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. TO write about Horace is not the responsibility it might seem. Poet Laureate in his own day, he has occupied a prominent niche in the temple of fame ever since; and no one, I think, has tried to shake this most established of poetical reputations. His monument, as he observed himself, is more last ing than bronze it will not be honoured if 1 lay a laurel on it, or disturbed ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE MARX BROTHERS GO WEST (Empire) isn't quite the happiest of the boys' screen contrap tions. It takes a good while to get into its stride. Neither the Brothers nor the screen -writers seem entirely at their ease in the opening reels, which deal with the misadventures of three tenderfeet amongst the crooks and land-grabberS of a Western frontier town. There is fun, but ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. CIVILISATIONS decay for many reasons, and one of them undoubtedly is boredom. Rather than be bored, the human race will do almost anything, wage a war, make a revolution, form itself into secret societies with crim inal aims; or, when circum stances do not favour such active courses, turn its energies to the contemplation of bull fights or football matches or long-distance ...