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... v,,! : Reviewed by Trevor zAlle n DO you remember the jazz age between the wars when there were tea, dinner, supper and almost breakfast dansants-- the world of Mayfair parties, Bright Young Things, dowagers, orchids, first nights, Cowes, Cannes? Barbara Cartland (Mrs. Hugh McCorquodale) is specially qualified to chronicle those careless 'twenties and threadbare 'thirties, for-- having ...

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... Reviewed by Trevor zj{lle?i DID you know that, according to legend, Beautiful Bath was founded by pigs? Bladud, son of Lud Hudibras, King of Britain, was driven from his father's court by leprosy. He duly came to Keynsham, six miles from Bath, to work as swineherd. The swine caught the leprosy, and, dreading his master's anger, Bladud drove them over the hills to a place where there were ...

... IJMfl III Reviewed by Trevor Allen QUEEN'S HALL, which opened with a children's party and expired to Goering's Firebird Music on the blitz night of May 10, 1941, not only epit omized half a century of London's earnest musical life. George Robey once conducted there; Landon Ronald, with a 9 ft. baton; and Herman Finck, with an orchestra which included motor horns and household utensils. Among ...

... AT rare intervals one strikes a story --psychological, spiritual, dynamic ally original-- which either tries one's patience or demands complete sur render. Mr. Chris Massie's Pity My Simplicity (Faber, 8s. 6d.) is not for those who require light, easy reading, but those who believe that the deeps of human conduct, especially in unusual lives, contain unfathomable mysteries, S A soldier in the ...

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... : 'Reviewed by Trevor zAllen IT is opportune of Mr. Harold Nicolson to reissue his diary of the Versailles Peace Conference with the implied comment: Now will you sit up and take notice, after a Second German War? What lessons can we poor deluded com moners learn from it to-day? In a new introduction to Peace Making, 1919 (Constable, 10s.) he submits twelve: Those desiring peace must first ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor zAllen IF I could do as much with Sixty- Three Years (Hutchinson, 18s.) as the Earl of Onslow, I should not complain. Traveller, sportsman, diplomat, he has roamed most countries between Clandon Park and the Antipodes, watched great events and their political personalities and background, as pouch cad and so forth in Madrid, Tangier, St. Petersburg, Berlin. Having ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor ^Allen PROBABLY the most tense episode in our naval war was the hunting and killing of the Bismarck after the loss of the Hood. One may relive the radio excitement of that chase in Commander E. Keble Chatterton's The Royal Navy: January, 1941-- March, 1942 (Hutchinson, 21s.), a period which included also the Balona bombardment, Cape Matapan battle, and loss of ...

... Reviewed by Trevor oydllen THERE is a story in Mr. Charles Graves's Great Days (Hutchinson, 12s. 6d.) that when Mr. Churchill once twitted Montgomery on his. silence, the General said he was very sorry, but he was a teetotaller, a non- smoker, and had little conversation. The P.M. is supposed to have replied: I smoke cigars, drink all the good wine I can find, and am a hell of a good Prime ...

... : Reviewed by T revor Alle7i AN eighteenth-century eccentric of some note was Dr. Messenger Monsey of Bury St. Edmunds and Chelsea Hospital. His idea of painless dentistry was to tie an aching tooth by catgut to a perforated bullet and fire the bullet from a pistol. His habit in the country was to hide his banknotes in the fireplace under sticks and coal, for safety; and once he returned ...