... . 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 ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE JT 'S Foolish But It 's Fun. So frequently one hears it said of some new revue in which deficiencies are obvious that it will be all right when it has been pulled together. In most. cases this is vain optimism, since there is nothing to pull together. But this show at the Coliseum, which at the first performance struck me (and a good many other people, it seems) as a ...

... : ^*30 Reviewed by Noel Thompson LET me start to clear the deck of this month's books by getting off my chest the war books, and those which have a wartime background, though by so doing I am relegating to a humbler position than they deserve, some of the escapist or peacetime books. But at any rate it will halve the reading for those of you who have already firmly made up your minds as to ...

... SOBER READING, in TRUTH and FICTION --By Vernon. Fane A Royal Engineer and the Phoney War Miss Carson M cCullers' Second T^ovel Mr: Bailey's Mr. Fortune Once Again Mr. Stephen Lister Among the Persuaders; Maniacs and Murder A WAR book in the exact sense of the word is SWORD OF BONE (Faber. 8s. 6d.); a story of the British Expeditionary Force in France from December 1939 until the evacuation ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT is not every film director whose name be comes part of the currency of our language. We do not, for example, speak of a typical George B. Seitz situation, or de scribe an atmosphere as being genuine Sam Wood. Yet Mr. Seitz has been directing pictures for twenty-nine years, and Mr. Wood, whose record can be little, if any, shorter, has handled some of the biggest ...

... Heartbreak House (Cambridge) By Horace Horsnell THIS loquacious play may not be Shaw's masterpiece, but it has magnificent pass ages. It is described as a fantasy in the Russian manner on English themes. That description serves; though it might be even more aptly described as a symposium in the Peacock manner on Shavian themes. Its form, of course, is much less rigid than Peacock's, its ...