... REVIEWED BY ELIZABETH BOWEN FOR most of us, Germany is a nightmare subject. Instinctively the mind bends back from the picture of devastation, from the unanswered and perhaps unanswerable questions of this defeat. We do not like the odours from the abyss. Germany had it coming to her: well, it has come now. I suppose it would have been impossible, three or four years ago, halfway through the ...

... ELIZABETH BOWEA „g BOOKS A Star Danced 44 flow Small a Part of Time 44 Merchant Airmen 44 44 With a Bare Bodkin 44 Leading Lady A STAR DANCED (W. H. Allen; 10s. 6d.) is Gertrude Lawrence's autobiography. Like everything else she has done, it is distinctive-- even in form, for it darts to and fro in time. We don't begin, for instance, with I was born. We begin with her dash back, by air, ...

... : is now 50 years old and to celebrate this Jubilee eleven experts have contributed a series of chapters on the different aspects of the Trust's work. These chapters, together with an introduc tion by Dr. G. M. Trevelyan and over 100 superb photographs, have been woven into a Batsford Book. This is a record of Britain's heritage together with a map of England showing where these precious spots ...

... . Mr. Kenneth M. Smith, F.R.S., has written for the practical grower and the student. He tells how the common virus diseases (and they become more common every day) can be recognised, and he gives the control measure when available. Some knowledge of these diseases, how they are spread and how they can be guarded against or checked has now become all important to the farmer, market gardener ...

... , which also contams the resume oi the 1944-45 season, reports a verj large increase in the number ol registrations. For the year ending in June, 1945, registrations were only 10 short of 10,000. The number of litters, too, entered in Vol. 64, is 1,576, an increase of 224 over the preceding year. The stud book is compiled by Sydney H. Dalton dan published by the National Coursing Club at 11, ...

... A Doll's House (Winter Garden) YES, another revival, but the more revivals that are forced upon us the more certain are we of one thing-- that storytelling will carry the preaching long after the preach ing has grown musty. (It would be by no means surprising if Pinero, who was on intimate terms with a vanished society, should one day catch the ear of an entirely different set of people ...

... BOOK REVIEWS The Scarlet Tree The River Old Marylebone and Some of Its Famous People ELIZABETH BOWEAS THE SCARLET TREE (Macmillan; 15S. ) is the second volume of Sir Osbert Sit well's autobiography-- which as an entire work is to bear the name the author gave the first volume, Left Hand, Right Hand! The idea implicit in that title informs, and con tinues to architect, this present further ...

... BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW BRITISH OPEN GOLF CHAMPION ELIZABETH BOWEN'S The Cruise of The Breadwinner China Servant Staying the Course THE CRUISE OF 'THE BREADWINNER' (Michael Joseph; 55.) is a tale of the sea in wartime, by H. E. Bates. This author's famous Fair Stood the Wind for France was, you will remember, a full-length novel: this his latest book-- the pages number not more than sixty- ...

... BOOK REVIEWS ELIZABETH ROWER'S Rogue Elephant Collected Stories Thanks, God! I'll Take It From Here The Englishman Builds Skeleton in the Cupboard ONE pleasant aspect, in literature, of the return to peace is that novelists silent during the war years are to be welcomed back. The best of these will take up where they left off; it will be up to them to con solidate what was, before or ...

... TU And No Birds Sing (Aldwych) GEORGE is peddling disinfectants in one of London's dimmer districts. For people like you and me such an occupation would be no golden gateway to romance, but George is different. He is only just out of the Navy, and the square-cut chin and generously quizzical eye of Mr. Harold Warrender tells us at once that he has brought out with him a pretty big slice of ...

... The Tatler's theatre critic, Anthony Cookman, is on holiday, so his partner Tom Tilt theatre cartoonist for over thirty years) writes about The plays Fd like to see again, and the actors Fd like to see in them. MEMORY takes me back to 1910 or there abouts when I drew Pellissier's Follies and Cyril Maude in Grumpy on either side of a piece of paper. The framed original of the Follies cartoon ...

... TL The Glean (Globe) THAT rattling good play of public school politics. The Guinea Pig, which is still running merrily at the Criterion, was based on the Fleming Report, and nobody minded. As his next subject Mr. Chetham Strode takes the present Government's blueprint for a planned national economy, and again nobody would mind, but this time, alas, the wheels of his dramatic coach do not ...