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... Pioneers of Fertility, by Grichton Porteous (Fertiliser Journal t-ia., 110, cannon street, 1. on clou, E.C. 4; ios.). Devoting only five or six pages to each man, the author has succeeded in presenting a pic ture of the life-work of twenty-two of the greatest men in agriculture, from Fitzherbert of Norbury, whose Bohe of Husbandry was published in 1523, to Robert H. Elliot, who died in 191 4. ...
... Birds in Britain, by Frances Pitt Macmillan and Co. 25 s.). Books on birds, as Miss Pitt admits in her preface, are legion, but as she has the happy gift of imparting natural history knowledge to the amateur in far more readable form than most, room will undoubtedly be found for this work on many a shelf. In addition to information on the species, there are chapters on the bird's place in ...
... Fruit Farming,. Young Farmers' GluD LSooklet no. 21, puDiisned Dy Evans Brothers Ltd. at is. 6 d. This does not seem quite up to the stan dard of the pre-war handbooks of the series. The trouble is that to try to cover in 48 pages fruit- farming from suitable soils to methods of grading and storing is attempting too much to be really helpful. It seems that this subject might have been dealt ...
... THE fourth volume of Mr. Sean O'Casey's memoirs is as rich and tempestuous read ing as its predecessors; reward ing, but a little headachey in the long run. INISHFALLEN FARE THEE WELL (Macmillan. 16s.) opens in Dublin in the days of the throubles and the Black and Tans, and ends with the author's leaving Ireland for England, where he has now lived for many years. It is a book whose quality ...
... At The Theatre Harvey (Prince of Wales) Ant Iionr (ookmaii THIS comic fantasy, which has run for four years in New York and may well make a long stay here, is a badly constructed play. To stress the point would be absurdly pedantic if the technical shortcomings did not affect the quality of our enjoyment. In fact they do. We laugh a great deal, but it is the fatiguing sort of laughter, the ...
... Book Reviews Elizabeth Botvens Europe Without ltiiedcher Goorerinu I.ariy Elcgrieix for the Den ...
... : Reviewed by Trevor zTfllen IT takes courage to write cheerfully of illness and affliction. The Yorkshire author W. Riley did it, I think, in Netherleigh; so did Wilson Midgley in From My Corner Bed; and some years ago I read a novel which portrayed a sensitive love between patients in a T.B. sanatorium. In The Plague and I (Hammond, 10s. 6d.) Miss Betty Mac- donald writes humorously and ...
... At the Theatre September Tide (Aldwyeh) Anthony Cookman MISS GERTRUDE LAWRENCE is our only leading lady, the last rose of a splendid summer-- in the sense that she, and no other English actress, can afford to be sublimely indifferent to the dramatic merits of the play in which she appears, secure in the knowledge that she is herself the dramatic spectacle. That is no reflection on our ...
... . By Oliver Warner. (Batsford 2is.) A pioneer survey which makes onlv a two-line reference to T. B. Hardy. ...
... . 7v Bv Dorothy Jane Ward. (Barker '8s. 6d.) An American finds us difficult to understand and says so at considerable length. ...
... a . I Bv Gwvn I ones. (Peter Davies 8s. 6d.) Clever, rather airy, short stories with a Welsh setting. The publishers give it as their opinion that there is no finer writer of short stories alive than Gwvn Jones. ...
... . By Raymond O'Mallcy. puuner 12s. o a.) Not only to anyone interested in farming, or in life in the West Highlands, but to all who like an interesting story of endeavour honestly told, I recommend this book. The author can not only narrate but describe well a rarer talent and his photographs are excellent. ...