... : Dr. Gyril D. Darlington, F.R.S., has edited the whole of the John Innes Leaflets issued by the Institution to date, including the latest No. 6 on seed production. The interest shown in composts, soil sterilisation, the fertility rules in fruit planting and other subjects studied by horticulturalists is shown by the fact that 60,000 copies of the five leaflets were sold during the war. This ...

... PHON ETICAL FANCIES A Glasgow Publisher Has Ambitious Plans for the English Language From Scotland comes another villainous attack upon the English language, or, alternatively, another noble attempt to deal with the barbarities of our spelling. It all depends how you feel about phonetics. Mr. Peter D. Ridge- Beedle, a Glasgow publisher, has decided that the time has come to modify the English ...

... IN that distant Elizabethan world thronged by shadowy figures bearing great names, Christopher Marlowe is the radiant one, 'the Muses' darling' in a contemporary's praise; and it is those words that Mr. Charles Norman has chosen for the title of his charm ing and erudite biography. The Muses' Darling (Falcon Press. 12s. 6d.) is a valuable study, not only because it traces the poet's life in ...

... Sweet Home wwwww S 'cylS a fascinating story the evolution of Home, Sweet I Home from primitive hut to steam -heated mansion. The Tudor fireside was an open central hearth with but X a hole in the roof to draw off the smoke. When grates and firebacks came in both they and windows were long S regarded as personal property distinct from the rest of i) the house, and often listed separately in ...

... IT is clear from the beginning that Alexander Korda's new version of Anna Karenina has an admirable purpose: to bring Tolstoy's novel to the screen as meticulously as may be within the limits of theatre-time and film con vention, and to build up a sense of a period and a society which conditioned the tragedy. This is something new. In all the earlier Hollywood versions, Anna Karenina was ...

... FATHER DOMINIC'S MISSION The Story of the Passionist Priest Who Received Newman into the Roman Catholic Faith In our own day the reception of Father Vernon into the Roman Catholic Church was a sensation of the first order, but it was as nothing to the conversion of John Henry New man in the '40's of the last century. England could hardly believe this news of the man who had once described ...

... By C. A. Leieune VICE VERSA.-- I am relieved to learn from my synopsis of Vice Versa that Peter Ustinov, that gifted handyman who can act, produce, direct, write, mimic any given type in half-a-dozen languages and, for all I know, make animal noises, is now twenty-six years of age. That will not deter his employers from referring to him as brilliant, but it may discourage them from adding ...

... THIS isn't the great Sphinx. This is only a dear little kitten of a Sphinx. This is my pet Sphinx, says Cleopatra to the Roman stranger in Shaw's play. This isn't a great film. This is only a dear little kitten of a film. This is my pet film, I felt like saying when came out of the Academy Theatre after watching 'L'Ange de la Nuit.' It is a long time since I lave been so touched and ...

... . By Bethell Jones. (Allen and Unwin 9s.) Why is it that frank and daring sex novels about the middle-classes are so often in bad taste, whereas similar stories of the old aristocracy or the new proletariat so rarely seem offensive This one is in the former class. R..C.-C. ...

... The L 'tie of Frightened Philistines. By James barrel!. (Koutledge 12s. 6d.) writ nkerous essays, chiefly on literary Subjev s, by the author of Studs Lonigan. a ...

... Witci ft and Magic of Africa. By Frederick aigh. (Richard JLesley 12s. 6d.) 1 Si aid hnd it easier to accept Mr. Kaigh s italiciv J assurance that he had seen a young mail a girl turn into jackals before his eyes, if he d not show himself so susceptible to travel s' tales about Madagascar, an island I hap; a to know. But his book is a pleasant mixtuit of erudition and entertainment which is ...

... ■3 . T By Robin Estridge. (Peter Davies 8s. 6d.) I A straight unpretentious story, with authentic dialogue which never descends to dialect. Sally, the licensee, is a grand character, por trayed without maudlin sentiment, but with a good deal of honest feeling. I recommend it strongly to anyone who likes, as I do, to have the conversation of a novel punctuated with orders across the bar. -if- ...