... : 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 ...

... THERE is no doubt at all about the most important book of this week, for it may easily prove not only the most important book of this month, but of this season and months to come. General Eisenhower's CRUSADE IN EUROPE (Heine mann. 25s.) comes as near to being a must book as any contemporary publication can, this side coercion. There has already been considerable controversy over it, before ...

... 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 ...

... one wild oat (Garrick). Sown and reaped by Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton intervening. a giant's strength (Torch). Atom bomb explodes play fizzles. humpty dumpty (Casino).- All the King's horses and all the King's men not to speak of Vic Oliver and Richard Hearne. babes in the wood (Princes). Monsewer Eddie Gray in charge. Cinderella (Palladium). Plus Laye and Trinder J. C. T. ...

... By Jefferson Fraser. (Quality Press Os.) A prize for the J' Western addict. Anv amount of rustling, shooting and open-air love. BOOKS IN BRIEF ...

... . By Leo Walmslev. (Collins gs. 6d.) A nice old-fashioned story of a drunkard who gets religion and is killed at Dunkirk. is ...

... . By Claud Mullins. (Gollancz 12s. 6d.) This is no chatty book of memories with wise saws and modern instances, but a fighting apologia by a man who has struggled hard for his own ideals. ...

... . By Sydney Horlcr. (Hodder and Stoughton 8s. 6d.) The air of London, perceives the hero of this thriller, was thick with the abuse that people flung at each other. I won't make it any- thicker. ...

... . By Dorothy M. John son. (Ghapman and Hall Ss. Od.) All the characters in this book are purely- imaginary, says Miss Johnson, conventionally enough, but adds The author regrets this because she would like to meet some of them. So would I. ...

... Elizabeth of ladymead. Anna Ncagle in a composite story of four different women who wait for their men to return from four different wars, done with the usual Wilcox-Neagle affectionate touch, and calculated to wring hearts everywhere. polly fulton.- Barbara Stanwyck and Van Heflin in a heavy-handed version of John P. Marquand's sensitive novel, about a poor man who marries a rich man's ...

... Our Film Critic Discusses is a piece that, but for the grace of God and the disciplined talents of a very versatile young actress, might have been a monstrosity. Its story is sordid and painful. It is a bleak, realistic account of a savage incident in a fishing village somewhere at the back-end of Nova Scotia. An illiterate, deaf-and-dumb girl, a miller's daughter, who has never been sent to ...

... Book Reviews The Train John Keats The Principle of Beauty Rain Stopped Play Villain with a Smiling- Cheek Elizabeth Bewens RUSSIA sends us, in time for the New Year, a fine novel-- which, best of all, makes us feel the human denominator common to East and West. Thanks for this act of grace should, I feel, also go to the British publishers, Messrs. Putnam, who have sponsored a couple of good ...