... A report of an inquiry organised by Viscount Astor and B. Seebohm Rowntree This report, as it turns out, is an attack on the National Farmers' Union and a number of other very influential bodies, including the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Council of Agriculture. The attack is on the policy, not the honesty, of those who think that the basis of agriculture in this country must ...

... TWO good reprints figure in this week's list of books: the first, RAFFLES OF SINGA PORE (Collins. 7s, 6d.), which was written and published some years ago, but is well worth acquiring in its revised edition. Sir Reginald Coupland, who is Beit Professor of Colonial His tory at Oxford, is a superb biographer, as witness his Wilberforce, and this life of the founder of Singapore is not only an ...

... MR. FRANCIS WILLIAMS' PRESS, PARLIAMENT AND PEOPLE (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) is a book on a subject which is under active discus sion in Government circles at the present moment. In his position as Controller of News and Censorship at the Ministry of Information, and sub sequently as Chief Press Officer to the British Delegation at San Francisco, Mr. Williams is in a unique position to take his ...

... (Leaflet No. 117, Ministry of Agriculture, Stormont, Belfast). Very large quan tities of seed potatoes are now being grown in Northern Ireland and an even greater demand is expected when seed can be certified as being free from eelworm. This leaflet has some remarkably good pictures of eelworm cysts on potato roots taken by the Long Ashton Research Station at Bristol. The eelworm pest develops ...

... . inis nuge tract or central Am nca is indeed unknown had it een better known, Mr. Mervyn G. Palmer surely would never have attempted to cross it from the Caribbean to the Pacific Ocean ,vith only £20 as his whole fortune. As a result of this trip many ani tals, etc., hitherto unknown to sci nee, will be seen bearing Mr. Palmer's name in the British and >ther museums. It was a one-man colect- ...

... Golden Eagle (Westminster) THE new play is pleasing alike to eye and ear. Costumes designed by Mr. Gower Parks divide the stage into delightful patterns of black and gold, swarthy green, pearl white, and ruby-hearted crimson. To the movement of these colours Mr. Robert Atkins's production imparts a slow grace. The dialogue of Mr. Clifford Bax has leisurely elegance and the incidental music of ...

... IN his introduction to ENEMY COAST AHEAD (Michael Joseph. 12s. 6d.), Air Chief- Marshal Harris writes: This is a magnificent story, well and simply told by as great a warrior as these Islands ever bred. It is the story of Bomber Com mand, as it was known to Wing Commander Guy Gibson, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. He was the man and his portrait shows i him to have been gay, young and good-looking who ...

... . By JOHN RUSSELL. SOME plays exact a certain physical intimacy be tween actors and audience. Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE is certainly one of these-- a play in which the audience ought ideally to get right inside the tight little box of a house and sense, not only each change of temperature in the living-room, but every footfall in the adjoining study and up the frosty path which leads to the ...

... .- For the mountain lover this book will give great pleasure, for the photographer great interest, and for those who combine these two pastimes the book will be truly fascinating. Mr. Cyril Douglas Milner is both an authority on mountains and on photography and in this book he has gathered illustrations from the best work of men of many nationalities and he explains how the perfect mountain ...

... . By JOHN RUSSELL. NINE weeks remain in which to enjoy, at the New Theatre, a production which is not merely the best that this winter has given us, but one which, in my view, offers one of the greatest evenings which one can ever hope to pass in the theatre. The coupling of ŒDIPUS with THE CRITIC has been called over-audacious; and managers have recently kept us upon a diet of such ...

... . By K. JOHN. IT is strange but certain that the modern novelist finds it hard to rouse our interest in a love-story., Ten to one we don't care. That Elizabeth should marry Mr. Darcy, that Anne Elliot should marry Captain Wentworth-- that seems important; that is very exciting, even when you know it all in advance. But now the introduction ol the love-interest is too often 1 eicmul for a drnn ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. SARATOGA TRUNK, packed three years ago in Hollywood, was opened at Warner's Theatre last week, and proves to have something in it for everybody's taste, except the exigent few who look for a touch of greatness in their pictures. This big, handsome, sprawling, crowded story follows Edna Ferber's novel pretty closely, and has for leading characters two of the types she does ...