... --By Vernon Fane How to Enjoy the Victorians Charles Graves's Seven Pilots A Who' dunit with Humour Vicki Baum Can W rite Bye, Bye, Blackshirt Eric Knight's Sam Small Flies Again Bucolics and Evacuees MR. HENRY WILLIAM POLDEROY, whose diary is featured in POLDEROY'S PAPERS (Michael Joseph. 10s. 6d.), is described in the blurb as an eccentric gentleman, but by no means a fool. Mr. C. E. ...

... By Horace Horsnell The Merchant of Venice (I\etc) ALTHOUGH The Merchant of Venice is one of the most popular of the comedies, the professional playgoer seldom looks for ward to it with great expectations. He has been disappointed too often. Poor productions litter his memory, in which actors, having no music in their souls, over-rationalized or threw away such lovely verse as the text, in ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. A FEW years ago escap ist literature was regarded in some quar ters with an air of slight moral disapproval, as though to turn from things as they are to things as they might be was an act of disloyalty to life, and therefore wrong. Now. however, these puritanical voices seem to be stilled, and an author can label his book escapist without incurring reproof. Mr. Louis ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. I YOU can see-- if you can find it-- THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, the second film made by Orson Welles, whose Citizen Kane so delighted the intelligent filmgoer and so shocked the exhibitor and the complacent audiences. All I can tell you is that it is to be found somewhere in Acton, somewhere in if urn t uak, somewnere m Haves and Chingford, and somewhere in Brighton. ...