... VV/,vAA/WWr^/,^'AA/^AAA/W/' /'A : Reviewed b y Trevor Alle?i HAVE something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style, wrote Matthew Arnold. It also seems to be the idea underlying The English Language: Its Beauty and Use (Odhams, 7s. 6d.), a handy guide to the correct use of words and the best in our literature. Perhaps one may be permitted to lift an ...

... VWAAAAA' THE Haymarket Theatre has seen 226 years of chequered history, yet to our leading stage S chronicler, Mr. W. Macqueen-Pope, it remains the 2 place it was when Fielding fought for freedom there, Cibber used it to defy Drury Lane, Foote X flouted the law, Liston raised laughs, Romeo Coates made an ass of himself, Buckstone and s Sothern popularized Dundreary whiskers, and Tree did ...

... tf| CtJUc fur s&mEsm _ V These little parkins are very popular. PARKINS Ingredients i lb. oatmeal (medium or fine); 1 oz. lard; 1 oz. sugar; 1 teaspoon- ful bicarbonate soda teaspoonful ginger; 4 oz. golden syrup; a few nuts; pinch of salt. Sift together flour, salt, oatmeal and soda and mix well. Melt lard and work it in and add enough syrup to form a stiff paste. Put dessertspoonfuls in ...

... TO think that such a thing should happen to people like us! It is the cry of the decent, kindly suburban grocer, miraculously embodied by Miles Malleson-- looking as though he might have come from some latter-day Diary of a Nobody-- as he leaves the consultation cell in a London prison. And what thing has happened? Merely the condemna tion and sentence of his daughter upon a capital ...

... . By Betty de Sherbinin. (bampson Low as. od.) A resolute attempt to depict life in the city of Buenos Aires, where, as the author says Man was conscious of women. Women were uneasy. ...

... Elizabeth Bcwetis MR. R. C. ROBERTSON-GLASGOW'S auto biography, 46 Not Out (Hollis and Carter; 10s. 6d.), is the sort of thing which, he says, should be done in the flower of life, before age has brought either the cynicism which smiles so irritatingly on all human endeavour or the complacency which sits back and awaits the opening of the golden gates. True. May one add, there are two ...

... the woman in white. Victorian grue in the Dracula manner, diligently adapted from the old Wilkie Collins novel. Handsome and horrid, with all the proper trappings. With Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet. i remember mama. A sweet-tempered, human story of a Norwegian family in the San hrancisco of the early i goo's, told in the form of a memoir by the eldest daughter, who has ...

... Theatre of Perfection. By W. Macqueen-Pope. (Allen 17s. 6d.) It seemed strange to find in this long, erudite and richly-entertaining piece of theatrical his tory a short story as thrilling and pointed as a novelist might write if he were unconfined by facts that of Samuel Foote and the Duchess of Kingston. But again and again Mr. Macqueen- Pope shows that he has a gift for writing history as ...

... By Harry Greenwall. (Ivor Nicholson and Watson 8s. 6d.) Written as though the author were a school master addressing a junior class on world politics. Beware. Take care. You never know, he writes on his penultimate page. Well, frankly, no, I don't. And this book does little to tell me. ...

... Soiling Alone Round the World. By Captain loshua Slocum. (Hart-Davies 8s. 6d.) A most welcome reprint of a sailing classic lor out of print. It includes Slocum's earlier book, Voyage of the Liberdade, of which oniv three copies are known to exist, and a good, explicit Introduction by Arthur Ransome. ...

... . By George Stitt. tAiien ana unwin 21s.) A biography, based on his own diary, of the Em Shereef Ali Haider, an Arab married to an Englishwoman who was recognised as Emir by the Turks when Hussein of the Hedjaz rebelled under the inspiration of T. E. Lawrence. A s ecialist's rather than a general reader's book, bul for the student of Middle Eastern affairs in this century it is full of new ...

... . Bv G. V. Desani. (Aldor 9s. 6d.) More than 200 pages of pretentious lucubra tions in the idiom of Kipling's Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, the fearful babu. ...