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... , by Norbert Casteret. Those interested in the art of pot-holing will need no recommendation to this book of cave exploration in the Pyrenees the author's name will be already well known to them. The uninitiated will find fascinating descrip tions of dangerous climbs underground, and accounts of the type of equipment required for this sport as well as a brief summary of what is known about pot ...

... 1 here have been many books on African wild life and there will undoubtedly be many more so long as the wild life is permitted to survive, but the unusual beauty of the flash light photographs taken by James Riddell, the author, raise the value of this work well above many of its fellows. Mr. Riddell writes modestly he disclaims any expert knowledge and with a sense of humour. In words and ...

... ^Aetc/i -$ocd BEVERLEY BAXTER. AS a matter of meteorological interest, I feel compelled to report that here in North America there is a considerable amount of snow at this time of the year. I am writing these notes in one of those Canadian homes in Toronto where cooking is done by a process of sleight-of- hand in the kitchen and the central heating seems to come from nowhere and is very cosy. ...

... By C. A. Lejeune THE UNFAITHFUL.-- Our story, announces a disembodied voice on the sound-track, takes place in Southern California. The problem with which it deals belongs not to any one city, town or country, but is of our times. The film never quite justifies this portentous statement, but is a well-told and handsome melodrama about a soldier who comes back from the Far East to find ...

... . . By James Lansdale Hodson. (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) Another instalment of this wide-awake ob server's day-to-day journal. Of more interest to posterity than to us, I feel. ...

... . By Nora Kent. pviacaonaia as. oa.j A vigorous story of two women friends, set in Westmorland and Hastings. This writer- knows her background and is determined that the reader shall know her characters. ...

... 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 ...

... (tt Anthony Cooknuin The Indifferent Shepherd (Criterion J and THIS not quite satisfactory play is much more worth seeing than many another deservedly voted completely successful. The chief characters are human beings whom Mr. Peter Ustinov understands and whose hearts and minds he explores with a sympathy at once delicate and perceptive. It is unfortunate that some of the incidents chosen to ...

... persuaded Noel Coward that he was a heaven-sent revue ir-t-A writer By Collie Knox BEHOLD, there is not one Cochran but many Cochrans-- all sizzling within the body (Incorporated) of one Showman, whose failures have been more magnificent, and much more expensive, than the successes of lesser beings. The successes of Charles B. Cochran (B for Blake) had for years thrown the traffic round ...

... By John Courtenay THE HIDDEN YEARS (Fortune) is a story of forbidden friendships whose author, Travers Otway, has sworn by the oaths of judgment and reason. That is to say, Harlston is a credible school, and this particular case- history a plausible business, though I still find the doings in the common-room-- where the beaks assemble-- more plausible than those in the studies (men only) ...

... . Compiled by Russell Palme (Skelton Robinson 18s.) From page 137 of this book I learn that Cecil James the Bassoonist is the son of Wilfrid James the distinguished bassoonist, and the nephew of E. F. James and Frank G. James, J respectively eminent bassoonist and trur.i- 2 peter, while he married Natalie Caine, tie oboist. Small wonder that he has been most active in the world of chamber ...