... ANTIQUE DIVERSIONS An Important New Volume for the Collector Those treasures which Mrs. Malaprop called articles of bigotry and virtue, which are so hard to assess in the antique shop because our knowledge in the present genera tion is inclined to be lacking, provide the subject of an excellent new volume by G. Bernard Hughes entitled COLLECTING ANTIQUES (Country Life. £2 2s.). In his twenty ...

... THE first three volumes of Sir Osbert Sitwell's auto biography have earned for him not only a wide popularity, the encomiums of the critics, the accolade of the selection com mittee of the Book Society, but a comfortable literary award as well. A considerable public will, therefore, be awaiting Laughter in the Next Room (Macmillan. 18s.), which is the fourth and latest volume, and in which, ...