... 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. ...

... STORIES OF: A SINGER, A SURGEON AND A SOLDIER Count John McCormack's Success Story; Another Doctor Autobiography Miss Helen Ash ton's Tadpole Hall -By Vernon Fane IN the foreword to his bio graphy, JOHN McCOR MACK (Methuen. 15s.), Mr. L. A. G. Strong says: I pro vide the recitative, he sings the aria. Both of them are fortunate. Here, indeed, is a rich sub ject for a biographer. The ...

... ESCAPISM AND REALISM The Passing of Elizabeth Kate O'Brien's Study of a Tfun Alec Waugh on a Tropic Isle; London Re-Blitzed -By Vernon Fane THE death at Charleston, South Carolina, of Mary, Countess Russell, better known as the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden, has provoked some strange obituaries. Elizabeth was a writer who always puzzled the critics. The German Garden book, ...

... All Clare on the Western Front A. G. Street Goes Back to the Farm; The Subtleties of Kathleen Coyle -By Vernon Fane AS I was reading Miss Clare Boothe's EUROPEAN SPRING (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6d.), the news came through that President Roosevelt had signed the Lease and Lend Bill. On page 32 of that book I found this passage: Isolation is the unwelcome compliment America pays the British Navy. ...

... NOVELS OF MODERN TIMES Hemingway and the Preacher -Poet The Lady in the Fur Coat Bernard T^ewmans Papa Pontivy -By Vernon Fane THE title of the first full-length novel which Ernest Heming way has published for ten years, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (Cape. 9s.), is a quotation from John Donne. The book has caused a sensation in America, where, according to the bookselling jour nals, it has busted ...