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... WAGHORN'S WAY The Pioneer of the Overland Mail As late as the third decade of the nineteenth century the conveyance of mail between London and Bombay was a business of fantastic difficulty. Between Bombay and Suez the steamers were hopelessly inadequate, and had to be crammed even to the Saloon with coal to ensure that they would get the 1,710 miles into Aden, the longest leg of the journey. ...
... IT would be fairly safe to say that the most popular American alive to-day is, by English standards, General Eisenhower. His own superb war history explains a few of the reasons for that popularity, which also depends on his humanity and the sincerity of his feeling for our own country. hew who heard his Guildhall speech in the summer of 194s, for instance, will forget its warmth or its ...
... There was a brilliant gathering at London's Guildhall for the presentation of the Grotius Medal to Mr. Churchill, and the actual presentation was made by Dr. Kappeyne van de Coppello, President of the Vereeniging voor Internationale, Rechstsorde, the Dutch equivalent of the United Nations Association. In his speech Mr. Churchill paid a deep tribute to Grotius, the far-sighted Dutchman. ...
... ONE cannot approach THE REIGN OF QUEEN VIC TORIA, by Hector Bolitho (Collins. 16s.), without re ference to Lytton Strachey, who, with his exquisite lucidity, stated the qualifications for such a work: A capacity for absorbing facts, a capacity for stating them, and a point of view. Twenty -two pages of Sources and References are a testimony to Mr. Bolitho's industriousness in search of facts ...
... I FOUND Miss Frances War field's autobiography, THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.), quite the most enchanting thing I read this week, in its humour, its honesty and the underlying pathos which is never allowed to intrude or to set the mood for the life-story. Miss Warfield, who is still young, writes of the central fact of her existence, which might have turned that life into a ...
... MISS ANNE CRONE'S name is one to remember. She is a new writer and an important one, whose first novel, BRIDIE STEEN (Heinemann. 1os. 6d.) shows a strong and original talent such as one does not meet every day or even every year. Miss Crone's work will inevitably be compared with Hardy's, for her writing has something of his uncompro mising force and passion, though her style is her own and ...