... GLIMPSES AT OTHER LANDS Russia and China of To-day Peru of the Incas 7s[ew York Mysteries and Fantasies Comedy Down on the Farm -By Vernon Fane MR. A. F. TSCHIFFELY states his aims clearly in the preface of his new book when he writes: If I have succeeded in giving a simple, yet vivid, scrupulously accurate and clear picture of the con quest of Peru and what led to it, and have produced a ...

... A STORY of the SEAMEN of BRITAIN And other Books of the Week-- in Fiction and Thrillers --By Vernon Fane IT is surprising that so com paratively few naval his torians have concerned them selves about the British seaman. Of the Navy and its battles there have been books without end; but of the men who sailed its ships, and fought them, there have been few outside the realms of (usually bad) ...

... A SELECTION FOR THE SERIOUS-MINDED -Bv Vernon Fane The Friendship of Keats and Severn The Nazis on Land and Sea Twelve Religious Plays by Dorothy Sayers Past and Present Lives and Loves THERE was once a man, an artist, who, while still very young, accom panied a dying friend abroad and tended him through all the rigours of a voyage in an early nineteenth-century sailing-ship, and through all ...

... THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF. SOLDIERS -By Vernon Fane A Deeply Moving Story by Robert Henriques Daphne du M aurier's ?^ew Book with an Irish Setting and other satisfying 7s[ew Books WRITING of this week's most notable and certainly most distinguished book, Stephen Vincent Benet has said: This is not another 'war novel,' though it was written by a soldier and concerns the lives and deaths of men ...

... ONE YEAR OF WAR --October 1942 to October 1943 The Marvellous Improvement within the Space of Twelve Months of the Allied Position on Land, by Sea, and in the Air. Reviewed by CHARLES GRAVES IT is inevitable that the shortening days and lengthening black-out of the fifth winter of the World War should create a feeling of stateness at home, however encouraging the reports from the various ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE MY SISTER EILEEN (Savoy).-- The films long ago put an end to the American flavour in farce being a new one. Yet My Sister Eileen, which is as American as anything yet seen on the stage, is wholly a novelty and at the same time one of the most hilariously amusing farces which have ever cheered up London. It is good to get away from unfaithful husbands, French vamps ...

... STORIES OF THE WORLD OF TO-DAY -By Vernon Fane J. B. Priestley's New Novel A Soldier's Escape from France The Artistry of Edward Seago A New Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher's Architecture THERE may be many views of Mr. J. B. Priestley as a radio speaker; there can be few divergent opinions about him as a novelist. There is a school of thought which sees in him the true descendant of Dickens, ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE LOTTIE DUNDASS.-- Rare indeed are good plays about the theatre and back stage life. Until the production of Miss Enid Bagnold's play at the Vaudeville I would have said there were only two-- relawney of the Wells and The Light of Heart. In some ways Lottie Dundass is better than either-- and that not merely because it is a- thriller which really does thrill. There ...

... A DIVERSE ASSORTMENT OF BOOKS -By Vernon Fane An Author 'Photographer in Burma The Letters of a Tory Gentleman Tforway Under the j\[azi Jackboot War Stories by Fighting Men IT is natural that the best part of Mr. George Rodger's book, RED MOON RISING (Cresset Press, i 2s. 6d.), should be the photo graphs, and this is no invidi ous comment, since he is the brilliant photographer of Life and ...

... A SELECTION OF FACT AND FICTION Mr. Frank Fenton's Vigorous Novel A Chatterton Biography A Romantic Story by Miss Naomi Royde Smith; Tips About Tots; Mr. Gerald Kersh's Exposition of Nazi Horrors A New Series of Live Books -By Vernon Fane AMONG the American masters of the brief phrase or the rolling Biblical period, I have found a name that is new to me, in Mr. Frank Fenton, whose A PLACE IN ...

... GRAVITY, GAIETY and GHOSTS The Tragedy of Malaya Mr. Price Among the Mediums A Children's Book for Grown'Ups A Discursive Dachshund -By Vernon Fane THE Malayan campaign, and the loss of Singapore, re mains one of the greatest tragedies of the last three years of war; possibly the greatest defeat that British arms have suffered during that time. Mr. Ian Morrisons MALAYAN POSTSCRIPT (Faber. Ss. ...

... -By Vernon Fane A Learned Treatise on Agricultural Conditions An Eighteenth Century Scene Robert Payne's Exotic Story of the Far East A Muse in the Mediterannean Gastronomic Successes ivith a Tin-opener PROFESSOR N. GANGU LEE has written an interesting short treatise on a subject which is of the greatest importance to us now, and should remain in that relation to our national life after the ...