... 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 ...

... -By Vernon Fane The Letters of Lady Cowper and the Princess Lieven A Fantasia by C. S. Lewis The Adventures of an ISth'Century Marine A Scholarly Account of the Black Prince Mars versus Music Border Politics and German Occupation TWO of the greatest of political hostesses in the golden age of Whiggery were Lady Cowper and the Princess Lieven. That they were also close friends and conducted an ...

... RUSSIA -THE MAIN THEME OF THREE BOOKS -By Vernon Fane A. T. Lloyd's Biography of a Writer A Collection of Russian Short Stories The Last Phase of the Romanov's Life Personal Reminiscences of the Countess of Listowel A Newfoundland Tragedy A French General's Military Survey BY a coincidence which, as far as I know, owes nothing to premeditation, three of the most interesting books I have read ...

... 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 Vernon Fane Philip Guedallas Story of Two French Defeatists Sanitational Searchings A Documented History of Convoys A 7S lew Novel by Lady Cynthia Asquith Frederick Niven's 18th 'Century Tapestry A Simple, yet Ingenious, Thriller MR. PHILIP GUEDALLA, in his foreword to THE TWO MARSHALS (Hod der and Stoughton. 10s. 6d.), writes: This book is more than the story of two French soldiers, ...