... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE FLYING COLOURS.-- With a bit more polish and a slicker production this revue at the Lyric Theatre would have flown to even more colourful heights. As it is, it is pretty good and certainly well above the average. With Miss Binnie Hale and Mr. Douglas Byng in the cast, furnished, as they are here, with worthy material, this could hardly fail to be so. Miss Hale appears ...

... GLIMPSES AT OTHER LANDS Russia and China of To-day Peru of the Incas 7s[ew York Mysteries and Fantasies Comedy Down on the Farm -By Vernon Fane MR. A. F. TSCHIFFELY states his aims clearly in the preface of his new book when he writes: If I have succeeded in giving a simple, yet vivid, scrupulously accurate and clear picture of the con quest of Peru and what led to it, and have produced a ...

... -By Vernon Fane A Learned Treatise on Agricultural Conditions An Eighteenth Century Scene Robert Payne's Exotic Story of the Far East A Muse in the Mediterannean Gastronomic Successes ivith a Tin-opener PROFESSOR N. GANGU LEE has written an interesting short treatise on a subject which is of the greatest importance to us now, and should remain in that relation to our national life after the ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE WINGLESS VICTORY.-- Mr. Maxwell Anderson has a considerable reputation as a dramatist on the other side of the Atlantic. Those who know him only by his The Wingless Victory may, perhaps, be permitted to ask why. Compared with this portenlous piece of verbosity, Tolstoy's War and Peace, which preceded it at the Phoenix Theatre, was a snappy, strip-tease act. ...

... -By Vernon Fane Norwegian Autobiography, and Life in Norfolk Conflict in France Death in Wyoming /Esop Refold The Latest Peter Cheyney IN the past few months many good and moving books have come out of Norway, and the latest of these is called RETURN TO HAPPINESS (Mac millan. 18s.), the autobio graphy of another kind of Norwegian. Mr. j onas Liea lias, m common witn Ms leiiow- Norwegian ...

... A BATCH OF NEW NOVELS From Britain, America and Occupied Europe An Account of Lord B eaverbrook in Whitehall and Other Books of the Week By Vernon Fane IN her sensitive introduction to SOUTHERN HARVEST (Gollancz. ios. 6d.) Miss Clare Leighton writes that this book was written out of my own need. Missing the earth of England and the people of that earth, I wandered around here in the ...