... THE WAR ON LAND AND SEA --By Vernon Fane A Cruiser Epic Bromfield versus the Boche The Fifth Column Reaches Bloomsbury Miss Sitwell Reflects and Ponders Mr. C. S. FORESTER is supreme in his field: the dramatic, ingenious and poetic presentation of British sailors on the high seas. In the past, his novels (for he is essentially a writer who is happiest in the elastic bounds of imaginative ...

... A Long Poem of the Present War; Michael Graham's Angling Book; Alun Lewis's Character Sketches of Army Life The Story of a Fighter Pilot and the Log of a Merchant Airman A Romantic Novel of Heroic Dimensions; Claude Houghton's Book About a Book --By Vernon Fane A MONTH or two ago I heard the lovely, measured voice of Miss Diana Wynyard reading these lines over the radio: I thought with love, ...

... THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF. SOLDIERS -By Vernon Fane A Deeply Moving Story by Robert Henriques Daphne du M aurier's ?^ew Book with an Irish Setting and other satisfying 7s[ew Books WRITING of this week's most notable and certainly most distinguished book, Stephen Vincent Benet has said: This is not another 'war novel,' though it was written by a soldier and concerns the lives and deaths of men ...

... : Reviewed by ^*U Noel Thompson LET us start with something cheer ful. For this, and especially for those who know Yorkshire, I recommend Eric Knight's Sam Small Flies Again (Cassell, 8s. 6d.). The author explains that he wrote these short stories when he felt homesick in distant parts of the world and thought of Sam Small, the typical Yorkshireman in his own county's estimation with his ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE Symbolist Movement in poetry was French in origin. Its chief exponents, Baudelaire, Ver laine and Mallarmé, protested with noble eloquence against the scientific art of an age which had lost much of its belief in traditional religion and hoped to find a substitute in the search for truth. The essence of Symbolism is its in sistence on a world of ideal beauty, and its ...

... Correspondence and commandos, adventure and America By Vernon Fane The Letters of a Studious and Humorous Englishman Courtship and Commandos A Macabre Picture of Postwar Europe Lemmy Caution Once Again An American History Book for Children THE book that I have enjoyed above all others this week has been a col lection of letters, written by an erudite, contemplative and humorous Englishman to ...

... . Starred by The Sketch. h ighest value. **Adelphi: THE DANCING YEARS. Ivor Novello in his romantic musical play, with Muriel Barron and Roma Beaumont. Aldwych: WATCH ON THE RHINE. Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Athene Seyler, Mar- Karetta Scott. Anti-Nazis in the U.S.A. Ambassadors A LITTLE BIT OF FLUFF. Revival with Henry Ken dall, Chili Bouchier, Olga Lindo. Apollo: FLARE PATH. R.A ...

... TU By Horace Horsnell They Came to a City Globe J THE planning of Utopias must be great fun. It has engaged the dreams and ambitions of all sorts and conditions of men from Plato to Hitler. Mr. Priestley, the latest of such cosmic visionaries, is in dis tinguished, if somewhat mixed, company. No one would suspect him of regarding his fellow-men as pawns. The champion of Good Companionship is ...

... By Horace Horsnell Present Laughter (Haymarket) WHAT future generations will make of our plays and other theatre proceed ings remains to be seen. Still, I venture to forecast that, with this delightfully ridiculous comedy (possibly the wittiest since The Importance of Being Earnest), Mr. Noel Coward will have made a notable advance in the opinion of posterity. He should figure in that select ...

... By Horace Horsnell Vintage Wine (Comedy) OUR stage has long excelled in good comedians, and our drama in good parts for them to play. Even the great days of tragedy deferred to them. The Elizabethans, like ourselves, enjoyed a good laugh; and it is not without significance that Falstaff, that prime comedian, should have dominated three of Shakespeare's plays. Those two good judges, Hazlitt and ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THERE is a bitter pleas ure in turning from Julien Duvi vier's new, shining Hollywood epic, Tales of Man hattan, to his old, unostentatious LA FIN DU JOUR. which you can seen at Studio One with French dialogue and English sub-titles. Ea Fin du Jour was the last film Duvivier made before he left the Old World and the life and cinema ne unoerstooo. The present copy has ...

... . i By C. A. LEJEUNE. THERE is no thing new about the type of film demonstrated by Loretta Young and Brian Aherne in A NIGHTN TO REMEMBER (Gaumont and Marible Arch Pavilion). but it has been a good selling line with customers ever since D. W. Griffith introduced it in The Lonely Villa, round about 1910, and I expect it will still be evoking squeals and shrieks of delight from the audience ...