... Reviewed by Trevor Allen STRANGE are the winds of circum stance that blow into men's lives, launch ing them on unusual journ eys-- Captain Roy Farran went east in 1940 at nineteen, fought in tanks in the Western Desert and in Crete, operated as a Special Service commando behind the enemy lines in Italy and France, and finally served in the Palestine Police-- a job that involved him in a charge ...

... THERE are some good novels this week and, though none of them is necessarily of great significance, they make a satisfying and notable list. First of all, A QUIET NEIGH BOURHOOD (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.), a book of considerable character in spite of its gently restricted theme. Mrs. Anne Goodwin Winslow writes, if I may use an old-fashioned term, like a lady, with restraint, delicacy and a polite ...

... A FILM that purports to clarify the case against anti-Semitism within the space of two hours is an audacious thing; a film that selects this special moment for doing so is even more audacious. It is obvious to any decent man or woman that persecution of any kind is both evil and stupid, but the particular bias of many people at many times against the Jews is a pheno menon that springs from ...

... SITTING PRETTY.-- What might have been a negligible Hollywood comedy about a young couple who advertise for a baby-sitter and jet one in the person of a dryly efficient male novelist, is saved by its cynical sketches of small-town life and Clifton Webb's tour de force is an Admirable Crichton of the nursery. Rather Surprisingly funny. kreutzer sonata. A notable Argentine ilm in Spanish, ...

... cut tii ytujcu A la Carte (Savoy) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt APPARENTLY it is in the nature of things that the final editing of a little revue gets left to the first-night audience. None of the many cooks authors, composers, designers, choreographers can be sure what will be the effect of certain items in the menu. They can cook, but they cannot taste. They require the services of an ...

... Elizabeth Betven s Who Has Seen the Wind Wonderful Mrs. Harriot! British Chess Moscow Murder WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND (Macraillan ; ios. 6d.) is literature, out of Canada. It has the merit of being a non-literary book-- a book vital from the first to the last page, un-selfconscious, at no point weighted down by roundabout, wordy passages, Clean through its pages blows a sheer sense of ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE THE HEART OF THE MATTER. HEART OF THE MATTER. By Graham Greene. (Heinemann 9s. 6 d.) Greene. Heinemann 9s. bd.) ALL THE KING'S MEN. By Robert Penn Warren. Eyre and Spottiswoode 12s. 6 d.) THE BRIGHT PROMISE. By Richard Sherman. (haber and haber 10s. bd.) THE VOICE OF THE CORPSE. By Max Murray. (Michael Joseph 8s. bd.) THE HEART OF THE ...

... cage me A peacock (Strand). Noel Langley, observing that there 's no place like Rome, pro ceeds to make a Roman holiday of the story of Lucrece, Tarquin and Collatinus an irreverent and unequal piece of fooling that can be both very good and the other thing. Yolande Donlan is altogether delightful as the red-headed moll, and there is much agreeable music by Eve Lynd. ft crime passionel (Lyric ...

... A LA CARTE IT is a handsome menu-- and, thank heaven, we are not fussed about by too many cooks. Indeed, there are only four names at the head of the Savoy programme: Book and lyrics, Alan Melville; Music, Charles Zwar; Production, Norman Marshall; Décor, dresses, dances, William Chappell. Here is a change from the monstrous regiment of authors, lyrists, composers, choreographers, designers, ...

... BOOKS IN BRIEF Lucy Walter, Wife or Mistress. By Lord George Scott. (Harrap 12s. 6d.) After the thundering rhetoric of the Preface (which opens Having for many years felt rightful indignation at the cruel calumnies which have continually been heaped upon the moral character of my ancestress it is surprising to find that this is a scholarly and persuasive book. Bridge to Brooklyn. ft By Albert ...

... DEAN INGE may now be a gentleman of advanced years, but in his new collection of essays, THE END OF AN AGE (Putnam, 10s. 6d.), he writes with all the lucidity and force of a man and a thinker in the prime of his life. Of these seven essays, the Dean writes that the titles of the chapters mav sound more despondent than the text, a phrase which recalls the days when he was known as the gloomy ...

... Elizabeth ftewehs MOUNT IDA, by Monk Gibbon (Cape; 18s.), is a book far from easy to classify-- it is not quite autobiography, not quite novel. Mr. Gibbon has, indeed, forged a form of his own: and why should he not? He is an outstanding Anglo-Irish poet; he is the author of The Seals. Moreover, in Mount Ida he is making a new approach to an ancient subject-- the primary subject, possibly, ...