... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MR. ERIC LINKLATER'S autobiography, The Man on My Back, starts so many hares that one scarcely knows which to follow. Mr. Linklater's body is as active as his mind-- and if we follow that, setting off from his native Orkney, we shall have traversed a large part, and perhaps the most interesting part, of the globe. Mr. Linklater lived in India and America in India as a ...

... Books for the Story-Lover Robert Graves and Sergeant Lamb Peter Cheyney' s Tough Detectives Jerome Weidman' s Horse and Two Lady TJovelists -By Vernon Fane THOSE who have read Mr. Robert Graves' Sergeant Lamb of the Ninth, will pleasantly anticipate the sequel and conclusion to the fictionised story of that remarkable character published now under the title of PROCEED, SERGEANT LAMB (Methuen. ...

... LIFE-STORIES OF THE GREAT Gilbert and Cecil Chesterton A Pungent and Vivacious Family Study The Clamour Boy of Adventure, and the Cash Value of an Elephant Ride -By Vernon Fane IN his autobiography, G. K. Chesterton told the world very little about his life, but a great deal about himself and about his intellectual activities. It has sometimes been said that no man can write a book, much less ...

... THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING A Treasury of Letters The Fabulous Woohuorth The Bali Lotus' Eaters Nelson's Hearts of Oak Two Women Novelists on the War --By Vernon Fane OF all forms of writing, the letter is, perhaps, the most individual, and cer tainly the most revela tory. This is more apparent in modern times, when biography so often takes the form of a Life and Letters. In the more ...

... The Blending of Fact and Fiction Charles Graves' Story of the R.A.F. Margaret Ferguson's Childhood Reminiscences A Powerful South African Ffovel, and Two in Lighter Vein --By Vernon Fane IN times of stress like these, memory appears to play strange tricks. What a long, long time ago it seems, for instance, when Mr. Neville Chamberlain announced the declaration of war. From what almost ...

... Stories Grave and Gay Hell and the Soviets Round England with a Circus Delilah Bouleversie Mr. Cary's Undreamlike Children -By Vernon Fane THE life of a political prisoner in a totali tarian State has often been described by those who have been fortunate enough to stay alive to tell the tale. Whether it is Dachau, the Solovetsky, or the Lipari Islands, the story invariably produces the same de ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. PROPHECY in show business is always a rash affair, so I am only going to say that I think -- I think -- I have found a new face on the screen this week with a big future. Said face belongs to a young Dutch actor, one Philip Dorn, and the film in which you will see it is ESCAPE (Empire). Mr. Dora plays a Nazi doctor in a concentration camp. It isn't a very big part that he ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE reaction of most English people to the collapse of France in face of the German invasion was one of stupefaction and bewilderment. Afterwards that reaction changed, in some cases to indignation, in others to sympathy, or sorrow; but the majority of us are still puzzled and eager for enlightenment. No sensible person wishes to accumulate more enemies than he need which ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Fun and Games (Prince s) IT would be difficult to decide which of the items in this show come under the classifi cation of Fun as distinct from Games, and which under the classification of Games as distinct from Fun. Some of them, indeed, appear to be neither. Take, for example, those in which Miss Linda Gray, an artist of outstanding quality, is involved. These are ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SERGEANT YORK (War ners) would appear, at first sight, to be the sort of war- film that is generally made several years after the end of a war. In its restraint, its sincerity, and its care ful avoidance of hys teria and jingoism it belongs to the class of The Big Parade, Journey's End, and All Quiet on the Western Front, rather than to the vituperative melodramas of ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. DURING his literary career Mr. Osbert Sit- well has opened doors leading into many countries, many subjects, many lives. There is nothing deliberate or experimental about his versa tility. Poet, satirist, critic, traveller, as well as novelist, he writes to satisfy his curi osity about life, and this curiosity is continually taking fresh forms for its expression. Like Alice ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE historical setting to The Captain from Con necticut is the little- known war of 1812-1814 be tween England and America, the war in which we burned the Capitol at Washington. From a political and a military point of view it was over shadowed by the Napoleonic War, of which it was an offshoot. The blockade was as irritating to neutral countries then as now and the ...