... WAT OF THE WAR By Foresight Premier's Return THE Prime Minister is back at work once more and ready to assume new burdens in the House of Commons in the absence of one of his colleagues. Mr. Churchill looks thinner as though he had lost many pounds in weight but he is cheerful, even exuberant. He has overcome his illness in the comparatively short time of three weeks. Some of his friends ...

... Family Pictures The Duchess of Marlborough and Three of Her Children Lady Caroline Spencer- Churchill For over a year, the younger daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough did full-time secretarial work in a hospital, but deciding that she tvould be even better employed on the more active work of nursing, she recently qualified as a V.A.D. She is now working at a hospital in Oxfordshire ...

... The Duchess oj Marlborough and Her Younger Son Marcus Adams Lord Charles Spencer Churchill Marcus Adams J The Oxfordshire Branch of the Red Cross is fortunate in having a very energetic and able President in the person of the Duchess of Marlborough. From her home, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, she takes an active interest in all social and war work in the County, being especially interested in ...

... The Glorious Story of the Eighth Army in the Battle of Egypt is Told in 44 Desert Victory' dive-bombed by ,n ,hc Rommel s J into action z-n.nrM l, ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Post-Symbolists THE HERITAGE OF SYMBOLISM, by C. M. Bowra (Macmillan; 15s.), is a study of the link between five great poets-- Paul Valéry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stefan George, Alexander Blok and William Butler Yeats. These men, though (roughly) contemporaries, were of different nationalities: the scenes of their lives and their destinies lay very far apart. They did not ...

... Mr. Arthur Machen, the well-known author, cele brated his eightieth birthday a fortnight ago by giving a luncheon-party for friends and relatives at the Ilun- garia Restaurant in London. Mr. Machen's last work, A Handy Dickens, was pub lished little more than a year ago. His home is at Amersham, in Buckingham shire his favourite recre ation, according to Who \s Who, 44 Dog and Duck Lady Benson ...

... Suffo/ks at Ipswich Features of the Ipswich Spring Stallion Show, held by the Suffolk Agricul tural Association, were the heavy entries in the junior classes and the all-round strength of exhibits from East Anglian studs. A qualification to this is that Sir Hanson Rowbotham 's important stud-farm at Brooke, Isle of Wight, pro vided the winners of the two junior classes and the junior supreme ...

... THERE are a great number of different-- and specialist-- jobs on the farm. Indeed, no other occupation can show so many diverse interests and activities as the ordinary arable or mixed farm. Some agricultural duties are very strenuous and re quire such heavy muscular effort that they are much too exacting for women, but the care of stock is a branch of farming admirably adapted for animal ...

... By Our Horticultural Correspondent A FORTNIGHT ago I referred to the comparatively simple task of outdoor vegetable cultivation, but on reflec tion I must confess that this was perhaps an ill-chosen phrase. In contrast with green house work, vegetable production under natural conditions is a more straightforward business, but, as many a wartime cultivator has discovered, there are many ...

... J^cchicA- ow The Re-institution of the Coronation Cup IT is surprising that so little attention has been drawn to the reinstitution by the Stewards of the Coronation Cup. Conditions of the race have not yet been published, but it is to be run at Newmarket on Oaks Day, June 18, and is to be an open event. Having been given this importance, it may be assumed that the stake will be a relatively ...

... HOW THE TOWN OF MEDENINE, IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA, WAS FOUND AFTER ITS ABANDONMENT TO THE EIGHTH ARMY. Looking through a Moorish archway at tha wrecked buildings, wantonly destroyed by the Germans before their withdrawal The town of Medenine, near the Mediterranean coast, is only seven miles from the Mareth Line defences it lies on the direct route between Tripoli and Tunis. In view of the ...

... THE VOUGHT-SIKORSKY HELICOPTER demonstrating how it can land or take-off from the water without making even a splash. With floats fitted to this strange aircraft, it is immediately converted into a seaplane. Its value in mid-Atlantic would make it of great value in combatting the activities of the U-boats COMING DOWN TO PARK, the helicopter can hover like a humming-bird over the exact spot ...