... 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, ...

... 44 Silver Wedding: 44 The Last Pre-Raphaelite An Attic in Jervuyn Street Elizabeth Bewehs Richard JefTeries is being handsomely com memorated in a uniform edition of his works published by the Lutterworth Press, the second volume of which. Field and Hedgerow (10s. 6d.), consisting of Jefferies' last essays, has just been published. As the editor, Mr. Samuel J. Looker, says, The bulk of the ...

... (bfr Castle Anna (Lyric, Hammersmith) Burlesque Princes Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt THE theatre cannot be said to open its arms to distinguished novelists. At their approach it is apt to put on a closed shop stare and to growl out something about the need for a period of apprenticeship. Thus, unhappily, it stares, and thus it growls at Miss Elizabeth Bowen. This novelist's proved gifts-- ...

... THOUGH styles in the performance of music may change, genuine artistry and showmanship must always count, and in this country we have one singer who, in his own particular line, is still in the top class. His name is Sam Browne, and he has been making gramophone records since 1922. To-day he can show anyone who may doubt his capabilities that he has a long way to go yet. To prove this, listen ...

... Mrs. Beeton and Ilcr Husband Champion Road Paper Orchid Elizabeth Bewen's TOWERING misconceptions on the subject of Mrs. Beeton have, for years now, waited to be cleared up. A Sybilline figure in bombazine, age round the fifty-mark, casting eggs by the dozen into the mixing-bowl, pound ing poundable substances with remorseless fury, daring the bride to err, the cook to falter, or the hostess ...

... (JM Four, Five, Six! (Duke of York's) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt BETWEEN One, Two, Three!, a revue so good in parts that it settled into a com fortable run, and Four, Five, Six! there is little to choose. That is surprising as well as gratifying, for the goodness of the first edition was largely the affair of Miss Binnie Hale and Mr. Sonnie Hale, and only a week before the second was due ...

... Elizabeth Hewens Mariner Dances San-Sou-Ci Our Dog's Victorian Tales for flirls I REMEMBER talking, a week or two ago, about a group of younger British novelists who keep one still optimistic as to the future of the novel. That week I instanced Howard Clewes-- now let us consider P. H. Newby, whose third book comes to us. It is Mariner Dances (Cape; 9 s.). Mr. Newby's preceding novels-- ...

... RECORD DF THE WEEK SOME two years ago Atlantis, composed by Stanelli, was given a concert per formance at the Cambridge Theatre with the composer conducting. Now it appears on a record for the first time played in grand style by Sidney Torch and his Orchestra. Stanelli has always wished to be accepted as a serious musician, and this work shows clearly that his ambition should not now be very ...

... A Passing: World Morning', Noon and Niglit in London Devil Take the Blue Tail Fly Three Books for the Young: Elizabeth Bewens THE title of our dear Mrs. Belloc Lowndes' last book sounds melancholy, but its contents are not. A Passing World (Macmillan; 15s.) does, it is true, cover the clouded period of World War I., but the effect left on the reader's mind is of equilibrium, good manners, ...

... (Mr tfcu A New Stratford Festival Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt COMPLAINT has been made that Stratford should have opened its summer-long festival with King John-- a history which readers excusably find tedious. Sir Barry Jackson, whose directorship regrettably ends with the new season, in this matter, as in some other, knows better than his critics what purposes the festival should serve. It ...

... t If Diamond Lil (Prince of Wales) Anthony Cookman Tom Titt and SINCE Marie Lloyd died there has been no English actress whose name was a universal joke. Perhaps this kind of joke, which must of course please the vulgar besides tickling the fancy of the uncommon nice, can only grow in a community that is vulgarly rich, with layer upon layer of warm-hearted vulgarity, as was English society in ...

... Book Reviews Elizabeth Bmtetis Yonrn Faithfully Of Wife* and Wiving British Boxing YOURS FAITHFULLY (John Long; 12s. 6d.) is Leslie Henson's autobiography. Sel dom has title been better found-- for seldom has any artist dealt more faithfully with his public. Leslie Henson can only not be described as an institution because of his quick-silver quality-- the word institution suggests ...