... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE Golden Carpet is a reprint, with modi fications, of two nar ratives of desert warfare already published in limited editions at a price prohibitive to the general reader. The new volume is cheap at fifteen shillings; with its beautiful paper, plentiful illustrations and excellent print, it is a shining example of wartime book production. Of the contents it is pos sible ...

... MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WAR J. B. Priestley's Commentary on Wartime Women A Factual Account of the Royal Tank Corps by Charles Graves The Wanderings of the Poet Laureate Men of the Sea -By Vernon Fane ONE of the most important books of the past month. BRITISH WOMEN GO TO WAR (Collins. 12s. 6d.), is a close survey of the Government regu lations controlling the first call-up of women in British ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. THE Warner Brothers, in making a film out of Irving Berlin's all-soldier show, THIS IS THE ARMY, have met tradition half-way with regard to plot and cast. Thev have added a sketchy story to what was originally a plain, revue. They have taken over some of the soldier stars and most of the numbers from the original stage show, and added one or two ex traneous Berlin tunes ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE Small Back Room is a picture of scien tists employed on research work in a Govern ment Department, and a study of a man whose temperament made the conditions under which he worked especially trying to him. Besides the physical disability of an aluminium foot, Sammy had a simplifying habit of mind with which the ambitions, intrigues and jealousies among his colleagues ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. THE late Sir Edmund Gosse, I am told, was fond of quoting this little couplet: It 's human nature If that 's so, Isn't human nature low In his day, no doubt, the wickedness .of the world may have been one of its more interesting and amusing aspects. Now, we have seen a good deal of that aspect, and catch ourselves wishing there was something else to look at. But should we ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. ANOTHER of Hollywood's masterful tus sles with history has brought forth a Tech nicolor romance about the life and love of Chopin, called A SONG TO REMEM BER (New Gallery). As usual, the history has come out rather the worse for wear, and those who thought themselves familiar with the details of the composer's career may well be astounded at some of the facts brought to ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. MISS PAMELA HANS FORD JOHNSON'S new novel is so unlike her last that it might almost have been written by another hand, or, at any rate, con ceived by another brain, since the hand is more a servant to habit than the mind is. Winter Quarters was a comprehensive picture of a detachment of soldiers quartered in an English vil lage it had two main units, the Army and the ...

... YOUNG women may be-- and sometimes are-- afraid of love. And other young women may be afraid of the call-up, but it takes Mr. Richard Sher man's heroine, Barbara, to have an equal aversion from both, and to spend go per cent. of her time and energies in dodging both issues, in digging herself into a safe job, and in aoine to her numerous parties with as numerous escorts. THE UNREADY HEART ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IT was probably too much to hope that Holly wood would make a film out of THE CANTERVILLE GHOST that re tained the subtle and characteristic flavour of Oscar Wilde's original story. The Canterville Ghost, as you will recall, is the story of an American family who take over an English mansion, and plague the life out of the family ghost, setting booby-traps for the poor ...

... ONE of the best parlour games (Adults, for the use of) has always been for one member of the party to quote a passage of prose or verse and for the others to try to identify it. This is not necessarily as forbidding or as erudite a pastime as it sounds, and it is most entertaining when the players pick bits of whose derivation one is quite, quite certain-- and quite, quite wrong. For instance, ...

... FOR an autobiography that combines adventure, realism, medical experience and a range of territory from Cuba to Alaska, let me recommend you to Dr. Harry de Vighne's book, THE TIME OF MY LIFE (Robert Hale. 10s. 6d.). Dr. de Vighne was an orphaned Cuban child, whose first memories were of selling newspapers in the Bowery. After that he became successively foster-son to an Iowa farmer, protege ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. CRICKET COUNTRY is ostensibly a book about cricket, written by Mr. Blunden at the sug gestion of a friend; but it is much more than that. I have regarded myself, he says, as given a roving commission but I ven ture to hope that I have fol lowed a continuous, even if a winding and sometimes tangled path. The path starts in the writer's infancy, for he was bred to ...