... The FRENCH MOTIF in FACT and FICTION Combined Training and the Dieppe Raid Simenon Without Maigret Gangsters, Murders and Black Marketeers Fifth Column in Fiction -By Vernon Fane IN this unassuming account of adventure, sparingly described by one who was both spectator and participant, we cannot help feeling that achieve ment has surpassed intention. WE LANDED AT DAWN (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) was ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE KING LEAR (St. James's).-- To say, with truth, that there is now a boom in Shake speare does not lessen the courage of Mr. Donald Wolfit in deciding to bring to a close his season at the St. James's Theatre with some perform ances of King Lear. Of all Shakespeare's plays, this is in every respect the most formidable. I have seen a fair number of famous players in the ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE WINTER GARDEN THEATRE.-- The suc cess of the Carl Rosa season at the Winter Garden continues, and is one of the outstanding musical events of the war. Enormous audiences crowd the theatre at every performance, and a Puccini work invariably seems to mean that there is not a vacant seat. I enjoyed a matinee of La Bohème vastly; the large orchestra played really well, and ...

... -Bv Vernon Fane Sir Seymour Hicks' Nineties were not Naughty Mr. E. B. White's Autobiographical Essays Mr. Robert Graves Reveals Milton to be a Crashing Bore A New Novel of Prostrate France IT would be hard to find to-day a more apt chronicler of the 'nineties, and especially of the theatre world of that time, than Sir Seymour Hicks, who makes it very clear from the start that he resents 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 ...

... Communism, Criticism, Loyal France and Wayward Sheep Mr. John Scott's Life in Russia A Journalist's Selection of Papers Miss Magdalen King-Hall's J\[ovel- Biography A Moving Tale of Occupied France Mr. E. B. White's Reflective and Humorous Essays -By Vernon Fane BEHIND THE URALS (Seeker and War burg. 7s. 6d.) is a book which will be quoted-- by both sides-- as the sort of argument about ...