... -/4 By Sabretache Commandos in 1922 A QUITE uncanny case of prescience is dis closed in one of the stories in Blackwood Tales from the Outposts-- Tales of the Border (William Blackwood and Sons; 4s.), written by Lieut.-Colonel L. V. S. Blacker, formerly in the Guides of the Frontier Force and now in the Field Artillery, and inventor of the Bombard, now issued to the Home Guard. The story is ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen They Say FOR France, the years 1870-1875 were packed with false hopes and horribly real disasters, intrigues and courage, cynicism and piety. Letters from Paris, written by C. de B., a political informant, to the head of the London House of Rothschild, edited and translated by Robert Henrey (Dent; 15s.), give a contemporary account of those fateful years. The letters are in ...

... The Tatler and Bystander's Review of Weddings du Vivier Swann Lieut. Paul Edward du Vivier R.E., only son of Mr. Joseph Evariste du Vivier and of Mrs. Phyllis Carlish of 7, Burnsall Street Chelsea aw/ Joan Beryl Swann only daughter of Mr. A. IV. Swann, of Leicester, and Mrs. Swann, of Worthing, Sussex, were married at Brompton Oratory Mrs. D. A. A. Treheme Daphne Fairlie B alders, daughter of ...

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... BY M. I. BROOKE It is in practical fashions that Lillywhites, Picca dilly, excel. They have designed and carried out the hand-woven jumper-suit above. The skirt is plain, touches of contrasting colours being intro duced on the jumper. Slacks can, of course, take the place of the skirt if preferred. They are pro vided with all those minor gadgets which are so necessary for those engaged in war ...

... The fact that goods made of raw materials in short supply owing to war conditions are advertised in this paper should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export ...

... The Best Play Since the War Watch on the Rhine, at the Aldwych Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine., the finest American play of 1941, is now repeating its Broadway success in London. Victim of political persecution, penniless and exiled, Kurt Miiller, German anti-Nazi agent, is brought by Sara, his American wife, to the peaceful haven of her family's Washington home. The Midlers' three ...