... AS I write this, the evening newspaper are carrying staring headlines of the in vasion of Europe, and in front of me lies an orange-jacketed book proclaiming with equal emphasis that this is D-DAY (Hamish Hamilton. ios. 6d.). In point of fact, the D-Day (military term for the day set in advance for the opening of an onerationl to which Mr. John Gunther refers was the crucial date of the ...

... MISS PAMELA HINKSON is a romantic, and her novel of English and French people living in India during the last decade or two has all the pearly tints and soft out lines of real romanticism. GOLDEN ROSE (Collins. 9s. 6d.) is primarily the story of two women and their loves; the Indian background, although indicated with the precision of someone who knows and loves the country, is only incidental ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE CRISIS IN HEAVEN (Lyric). --So much do I enjoy Major Eric Linklater's books that this play of his caused me no little disappointment. It is full of intelligent ideas (perhaps rather too full of them), but since it lacks any sense of the theatre or evidence of theatrical technique, it is, except for far too few amusing moments, extremely dull. Most of his people talk too ...

... LONG, elaborate, rich and highly-flavoured-- in fact, rather like a Victorian dinner-- is Miss Taylor Caldwell's new novel, THE TURNBULLS (Collins, 10s. 6d.), a saga of well-to-do trading families in New York, in the '6o's and '80's of the last century. To change similes in mid stream, I might also say that it is like a popular Victorian painting, overloaded with detail and with senti mental ...

... MR. BERT THOMAS once published a charming little book of drawings, osten sibly made by a child, of famous contemporary figures, whom he divided into the nice and the nasty people. Pro minent in the first category was M. Maisky, who was described, as best I can remember, as a man who twinkled and smiled, and liked to see everyone enjoying themselves. There is little in the first volume of M. ...

... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE THE STUDENT PRINCE (Stoll).-- Re vivalitis seems to be the prevailing epidemic in the London Theatre. Perhaps epidemic is too strong a word, for some of these productions have charming qualities. The size and shape of the theatre added to the charm of The Student Prince, since it enabled a large orchestra and chorus to be engaged, the latter very gay and gorgeous in ...