... at AiiMmhiv Cookniaii Saure Tarlarc (Cambridge) IT is not of sauces, piquant nor plain, that this admirable revue reminds me, but of the equally important 6.15 prelimi naries. Some people try to forget the carking cares of the day by rapidly lowering the drink which they call a snifter, a Dynamite Dewdrop or whatever it may be. Others are of the opinion that something long, cool and ...

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... Book Reviews **A Sort of Traitors** We Follow the RoadN 44 Olivia The Black Coat Elizabeth Betvehs MANY a reader may blink, at the first glance, at the title of the new Nigel Balchin novel-- A Sort of' Traitors (Collins; gs. 6 d.). Why, how and whence the plural? Is it, then, correct to speak of a sort of traitors as one speaks of a pride of lions or a gaggle of geese? Mr. Balchin's ...

... M 7 fc. Anthoii) ('ooknian French Without Tears audeville) IT seems to be a not very good year for nonsense. Much that has been offered lately as light and sparkling has been neither. But if we are not in the mood to produce the stuff, the demand for it must somehow be met, and the theatre does well in the circumstances to draw on the vintage nonsense of the middle 1930s-- the years of ...

... dJu (L lllark (Wcshuinslcr) Anthony ookmaii HEROINES whose motives have to be explained to us by a doctor are not as a rule interesting, but the rule, while it may help to explain why a play has failed, has no application to a play which has broken it successfully. Miss Lesley Storm's heroine spends the central scene of this play answering questions put to her by a psychiatrist, and the play, ...

... . By Roger Fulford. (Macmillan 18s.) A new and shrewd appraisal. Mr. Fulford is particularly interested in the Prince's con tribution to the increase of the political power of the Crown, and in his relations with his wife and children. ...

... SAHARA. By Norman Lewis. (Cope 9s.) Short, highly realistic study of a British officer left in Algeria and involved in Franco- Arab troubles. Books in Brief ...

... . By Learie Constancine (tyre and Spottiswoode 8s. 6d.) An honest title. It is a book for cricketers and only for cricketers, but, I think for all cricketers. ...

... . By Osbert Sitwell. (Macmillans 18s.) Rupert Croft-Cooke I SEEM to be almost alone among reviewers in not being moved to ecstasy by this new volume of Sir Osbert Sitwell's autobio graphy, but I recommend it only to those who are already familiar with the earlier books in this series, and wish to hear more of the people described in them. Starting the story here I find its trivial content, ...

... K . By Stella Gibbons. Longmans I Os. 6 d.) With every book she writes, Miss Gib bons seems in her work to approach more closely to what she once cari catured in Cold Comfort Farm. The action of this novel is post-war and its characters are a soldier's wife and children, two Italian prisoners, a land- girl, and other visitors to Sussex, as well as local farmers and indigenous old women who ...

... key largo. A concentrated shot of violence in a hurricane-swept Florida hotel. Edward G. Robinson as a gangster of the old school, vainly tries to impose pre-war ideology on Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, a war veteran and a war veteran's widow. You won't doze off, but you may find it too rough for your liking. it the contact man. A modern morality play, with Ray Milland, as the best ...

... WITH IRELAND REVISITED (Hutchinson. 16s.) Mr. Charles Graves gives us what amounts to a chronicle of delights. From the first steak in Dublin, to the last bowl of cream or glass of good sherry, Mr. Graves writes with the enthusiasm of the born gour met, as well as with the perti nacity of the born fact-finder. With his wife he recently motored 2,000 miles round and about in Eire, observing, ...