... : Reviewed by Trevor ^Alleu WHATEVER the limitations on actual travel to-day, there are none on armchair substitutes. about places tumble from the press, and personally I love them, for in prodding the wanderlust they also assuage it-- by proxy. Ann Bridge and Susan Lowndes, jaunt ing off the beaten track in a small car, serve well The Selective Traveller in Portugal (Evans, 21s.), that sunny ...

... Turf, by I. G. Lewis (Faber and Faber 12 s. 6 d.). The author was trained at Aberystwyth under Sir George Stapledon and for twenty years has made grass his study. As a consultant he has helped to solve many of the problems of sports clubs, particularly those left by the war, when golf courses ceased to be tank training grounds and playing fields drilling grounds. Thouglr this book deals ...

... Tractor Ploughing. This re vised edition of the National In stitute of Agricultural Engineering's booklet of 1944 is an example of the almost perfect handbook. If you want to plough or employ a ploughman, get a copy even get a copy if you just like seeing the countryside, for the ploughed fields will have a new meaning after you have seen this little book. (From the N.I.A.E., Wrest Park, ...

... Swiss Winter, by F. S. Sniythe (A. and C. Black; 30 s.). Mr. Smythe gives us yet another col lection of fine Alpine pictures, nearly fifty in black and white and eight in colour, each picture being captioned with intimate details of the Swiss scene, the descriptions showing the author's great know ledge of the country and mastery of the art of photography. In an introductory essay Mr. Smythe ...

... Where to Fish. The compiling of a new and completely up-to-date Field guide to fishing in the rivers and lakes of England, Wales, Scot land and Ireland must have been a formidable task after ten years, but the editor, William G. Lus- combe, has succeeded magnificently. Besides the British Isles, the book covers fishing in America, Europe, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Some most excellent ...

... Emily, Duchess of Leinster Hrud of u Traveller Death Be Mot Proud In the East My Pleasure Elizabeth Bewen's EMILY DUCHESS OF LEINSTER, 1731-1814: A Study of Her Life and Times (Staples Press; 15s.) is the work of Brian Fitz- Gerald, one of the lady's descendants. Mr. FitzGerald, as author, is at a further advantage: in addition to knowing the background of which he writes, he is in the ...

... At The Theatre IS itli Bliitton Shoes'* (London Hippodrome) Audi onr ('ookinuii To drag in comparisons with Oklahoma! and Annie Get Your Gun is not quite fair. These pieces were revolutionary in the sense that both had something definite to say and said it in a way that seemed delight fully fresh because the music and the dancing and the humour were all to the point. They hinted at the ...

... ifa, ^-ttuCfcz; Before The Party (SH. Martin'*) bug 1 it i litm if 1 \ntliittuit IT looks as if Mr. Rodney Ackland may achieve the oddest kind of success with this play. He intended, it seems, to write a sad little Nietzschean comedy about a woman who is doomed, maybe through eternity, to marry a succession of dipsomaniacs and to cut their throats one by one, out of pure disgust. This was ...

... Tlie Foolish heiitlcwuman (Ihiclicms) IT is a novelist's play in the sense that it grows too slowly out of more explanations than there need be, but once it gets going the playgoer is given little reason for complaint. The story is one of those lucky inventions which seem to be true to the theatre and at the same time true to life. After providing a fairly rich mixture of plausible comedy ...

... Ellen Terry and Bernard Show The River Line 44 Parson Austen's Daughter Elizabeth Havens ELLEN TERRY AND BERNARD SHAW: A CORRESPONDENCE, edited by Chris topher St. John, was originally published in 1931. Messrs. Reinhardt and Evans, having acquired the book, now re-issue it, at 18s., in an admirably illustrated edition. There are photographs of Ellen Terry; of G.B.S.-- The most suitable ...

... A Woman's Life Popcorn on the tlinza An American Visitor ''Trouble in Triplicate Elizabeth Bewen A WOMAN'S LIFE (UNE VIE) was the famous Guy de Maupassant's first novel --first published in France, 1882. The work now appears in Messrs. Hamish Hamilton's Novel Library, price 6s., in an admirable translation by Antonia White (author of Frost in May). One has, perhaps, to be already ...

... Elizabeth Bowen s Throw Mo a Bone The Long Walk The Beast in Me, and Other Animals ELEANOR LOTHROP'S surprise at finding her self married to an archaeologist is infectious; it does not wear off in the course of Throw Me a Bone (John Lehmann; 15s.). As her chronicle shows, she made out wonderfully well; and readers will find her the more engaging in that she differs widely from most notions ...