... Reviewed by Noel Thompson THERE have been stories in the newspapers recently, Your Canaries Can Still Sing and No Need to Kill Your Pets, dealing with the shortage of birdseed and enumerating substitutes for adequate feeding. When a few days later I picked up Bechhofer Roberts's book The Bird seed Pool (Robert Hale, 7s. 6d.) I looked at the title with amazement and then dived into it. ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I CAN'T say I ever thought the day would come when we should see Franchot Tone, that earnest member of Hollywood's intel lectual set, in the Stetson and buck skins of a Western hero, but that's how he appears in TRAIL OF THE VIGILANTES (Odeon). I still don't think that Mr. Tone is quite the cowboy type, but I am so glad to see him back on the screen alter months of ...

... KING GEORGE V Mr. John Gore's Personal Memoir --By Vernon Fane TO my colleague, Mr. John Gore, better known to readers of The Sphere as The Old Stager, the King and Queen Mary entrusted the task of the writing of a personal memoir of King George V. It had been wisely decided that an official biography should be postponed until comment can freely be made on the political aspects of his reign ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THIS week it is my pleasant task to welcome a new series, Britain in Pic tures; or, to be more accurate, three new series, for, besides Britain, the Penns-in-the- Rocks Press are publishing illustrated commentaries on the countries of the British Empire (The British Commonwealth in Pictures), and illustrated anthologies of the English poets The English Poets in tures). ...