... Walter de la Mare's Anthology of Love The Life of A. A. Milne Life on a Corvette Secret Service in Lforth Africa The Lady of the Manor The Beauties of the Home Counties --By Vernon Fane WHEN I picked up Mr. Walter de la Mare's LOVE (Faber, 25s.), I remem bered something Q once said: British poetry contains a very great deal of information about love, some of it really illuminating; but the ...

... A BATCH OF NEW NOVELS From Britain, America and Occupied Europe An Account of Lord B eaverbrook in Whitehall and Other Books of the Week By Vernon Fane IN her sensitive introduction to SOUTHERN HARVEST (Gollancz. ios. 6d.) Miss Clare Leighton writes that this book was written out of my own need. Missing the earth of England and the people of that earth, I wandered around here in the ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. I AM too late to recommend Channel Packet, which has already gone into three impressions; but not too late, I hope, to praise it, rapid as is nowadays the dis appearance of any book which endears itself to the public. One's reasons for liking a book do not always really explain why one likes it one may like it as one likes a person, for some temperamental affinity or a ...

... WAR BOOKS AND NEW NOVELS By Vernon Fane An Instructive, Cermany-froni'ivithin Account British Children Abroad The Life of a Roman Tribune A CatAovers' Classic A GOOD newspaperman on modern Germany is always worth reading, and Mr. Louis Lochner, chief of the Associated Press in Ber lin up to December 1941, is no exception to this rule. Mr. Lochner had fourteen years' experience of that country ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE MERRY WIDOW.-- Whether London's return, theatrically speaking, to the reign of Edward VII is because that age was more peaceful and more civilised, or because its plays were better, I have not the space here to discuss. Possibly both reasons hold good. But it is pleasant to find Lehar's luscious tunes, with their memories of Daly's Theatre, at His Majesty's, with ...

... ADVERTISEMENTS as PROPAGANDA A New Idea sponsored by Imperial Chemical Industries Mr. Sidney Rogerson is, to-day, a power in advertising: he is in charge of all publicity for that vast organisation. Imperial Chemical Industries. But until the year 1937 he had been chiefly concerned with editorial and film propaganda. When war came two years later, it put a stop to the bulk of ad vertising as ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THERE is a bitter pleas ure in turning from Julien Duvi vier's new, shining Hollywood epic, Tales of Man hattan, to his old, unostentatious LA FIN DU JOUR. which you can seen at Studio One with French dialogue and English sub-titles. Ea Fin du Jour was the last film Duvivier made before he left the Old World and the life and cinema ne unoerstooo. The present copy has ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SINCE human nature is always in trigued by a bio graphy, and never more intrigued than by the very private biography of a very public man, the screen obituary was not exhausted when Orson Welles made Citizen Kane. Much the same cinematic pattern has been followed by the producers of the new film at the Empire, KEEPER OF THE FLAME. If the niece isn't auite the towering ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. t HANGMEN ALSO DIE (Tivoli and Marble Arch Pavi lion) tackles a subject that seems a little too big for its autho director, Fritz Lang, and his company of Hollywood artists. This is the story of the search for the assassin of Heydnch, the Hang man of Czechoslovakia, and, more grandiosely, the apotheosis of the soul of the Czech people. The pick of the soul of the Czech ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. TIMES change, as all sorts of writers have snappily observed in all sorts of languages. There was the day when the words All-star Cast on a film bill meant quite simply, as a rule, that there was no star in it worth mentioning. Now it means precisely what it says, and no nonsense. When 1 aramount announces there are fourteen stars in STAR SPANGLED RHYTHM (Plaza), fourteen ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I HAVE been guilty myself, when driven to it by dons and other professorial types, of asserting that the motion- picture camera is the greatest his torian of our times --but then I wasn't thinking of films like FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS. Oup children and grandchildren, dropping into some repertory cinema of the future and happening on a revival of this 1943 classic, will ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. SENTIMENTAL journeys are apt to be dangerous, for they are undertaken in a state of emotional excite ment. When Angele Kernahan arrived at her father's Irish home she had but the vaguest idea of whom or what she would find there. An actress, like her french motner, and born and brought up in Paris, she had never been to Ireland before she had come en touriste with some ...