... By Katharine Susannah Prichard. (Cape 10s. 6d.) A novel about Australia, as vast and arid as the country itself. ...

... 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 ...

... AS a playwright, Thornton Wilder may be too esoteric for all tastes, but as a novelist he has a position of real dis tinction both here and in his own America. The Ides of March (Long mans. 9S. 6d.) is constructed in an experimental form, and not a particularly easy one, being mainly built up from letters supposed to have been written by Julius Caesar, by Cleopatra, by Caesar's wife, and by ...

... 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. ...

... . By George Wylie Henderson. (w. 1-1. Alien; as. oa.) Fictional biography of a young negro. Mr. Henderson has a good story to tell. If only he would be content to tell it instead of trying to write. ...

... . it By William Colt MacDonald. (Hodder and Stoughton 8s. 6d.) A particularly lively Western in which Rufe Harper and his gang of mean-eyed fast- shooting henchmen are defeated by Stormy Knight with a firm chin, straight lips and a somewhat sardonic expression. R. C.-C. ...

... QAr Tfiju Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt Crime Passionnel Gar rick) M. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE enjoys a con tinuing vogue in Paris as the exponent in drama and fiction of the newish philosophy called Existentialism. What that may be only a philosopher can explain. The unphilosophic may arrive covered with blood and sweat and tears at some sort of definition (as, for instance, that there are no values ...