... Qst tfcu ^fUlYijiAJL The Happiest Days of Your Life Apollo Anthony Cook man with Tom Titl TO enjoy this farce, and many others as good, we must pretend to be, or already be, old fogies at least thirty years behind the times. We have to tell ourselves that co education is a crazy and slightly shocking absurdity. Then the arrival of Miss Margaret Rutherford and her mistresses and girl pupils to ...

... BEVERLEY BAXTER. AMONG my constituents is an old man of great knowledge who is a magnificent and complete pessimist. His considered opinion is that the story of man is ended and that destiny or the fates or the Great Historian will find some way of ending the world and thus write finis to the book of man. His logic is not without force. No one will ever write as well as Shakespeare so that ...

... OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE SOMETHING TERRIBLE, SOMETHING LOVELY. By William Sansom. (The Hogarth Press 8s. 6 d.) THE NEEDLE'S EYE. By Timothy Pember. (Jonathan Cape 9s. 6 d.) BROTHER DEATH. By John Lodwick. (Heinemann 9s. 6d.) VEILED DESTINIES. By Winifred Peck. (Faber and Faber 8s. 6d.) Rupert Croft-Cooke SOMETHING TERRIBLE, SOMETHING LOVELY.-- In applying the name of his first story to his ...

... . By Tean Stafford. (Faber and Faber 8s. 6d.) Childhood in America of a brother and sister which ends in a sudden piece of shrieking melodrama. Over-written or isn't it over writing to speak of a road being devoured by the car like an endless red noodle ...

... . An Anthology of the Far East. Compiled by E. D. Edwards. (Hodge ios. 6d.) Bits and pieces, mostly from the works of visitors to the East, though there are some translations. A well-served chop suey. ...

... Joan of Arc and the Recovery of France A Crowd is Xot Company 6 Prince Leopold and Anna Elizabeth Bewens THE Teach Yourself History Series is being edited by A. L. Rowse: allied with such a name it makes a propitious start. Evidently-- and what an excellent thing!-- the gulf between the specialist and the public is narrowing. What can be popular is no longer in disrepute. In this case, ...

... . Edited by Sir James Marchant. (Odhams ios. 6d.) Professor Gilbert Murray has written the Introduction to this collection of wise and readable essays by elderly men distinguished in various professions. Dean Inge, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Darwin, Sir Seymour Hicks, rather Martindale and Admiral of the Fleet I°rd Chatfield are a few of the twenty-five contributors. Scarcely one who has not ...

... . By Ruari McLean, Sir John Tenniel. By Frances Sarzano. Richard Doyle. By Daria Hambourg. (Art and Technics 8s. 6d. each.) The first three volumes in a series English Masters of Black-and-White. Each has an able commentary on the artist's life and work, and each is quite prodigally illustrated. ...

... . By John Brophy. (Harrap 15s.) The fortunate publisher, reads the blurb, has no need to write up John Brophy. This reviewer is no less fortunate. BOOKS IN BRIEF. ...

... . By Mariorie Coryn. (Hodder and Stoughton 9s. 6d.) Napoleonic episodes in the form of a novel. Talleyrand and Barras as characters. Napoleon apostrophises Ah, women Women There 's 110 keeping them out of anything. But the dialogue isn't all as silly as that. ...

... . By Freda Derrick. (Chapman and Hall 9s. 6d.) A fascinating subject dealt with by a writer who introduces whimsical bits of autobiography. The illustrations are more informative than the text. ...

... When John Drinkwater wrote A Man's House he took the climax of the New Testament story and, for two inspired acts, showed the impact of those events upon a middle-class household in Jerusalem. Employing this same method, but without Drinkwater's skill or discernment, C. M. Franzero has written THE MEMOIRS OF PON TIUS PILATE (Allen and Unwin. 10s. 6d.), and here again the climax is, of course, ...