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... KEEPERS OF YOUTH Mass Observation's Alarming Document Avoiding sensationalism at all costs, sticking closely to unadorned facts, checking and rechecking the reports of others, Mass Observation, described as an independent sociological research unit, now comes out with its important REPORT ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY (The Falcon Press. 7s. 6d.) It is a thoroughly alarming document and, as Tom ...
... THERE never could be a story so specially well-tailored to fit an historical novel as that of Anne Boleyn. That it has been done before and will be done again makes no matter, for a skilled novelist can take any one of a number of points of view of this controversially historical char acter and her colourful contem poraries. Mrs. Margaret Campbell Barnes, in Brief Gaudy Hour (Macdonald. ios. ...
... THERE is a good deal of the suavity of Somerset Maugham's writing in Mr. Martin Boyd's new novel, SUCH PLEASURE (Cresset Press. Ios. 6d.), but there is also the author's own quality of story-telling and the evocative power by which he suc ceeds in picturing a room or a countryside or just a woman's dress. And better than all these. he is able to e voice the teeling ot a period. I enjoyed this ...
... MOST readers of fiction in this country are inclined to like a good story-- or rattling good tale-- about a ship, and this week it is a novel of Mr. Andrew Geer's that fills the bill. In fact, THE SEA CHASE (Collins, 10s. 6d.) is so exciting and so well told that I could only regret that the author had chosen to write about a German tramp steamer with a German captain as courageous as he was ...
... MR. JAMES BRIDIE, who has written many plays for our delight and instruction, as well as being distinguished in the world of medicine, has been writing letters to Mr. Moray McLaren, whose name will be familiar to B.B.C. listeners and to the discriminating among readers of contemporary letters. Mr. McLaren nas neen wntme back to him, and the subject of their correspondence is the English. They ...
... THE REFORMER'S PATH A New Biography of Shaftesbury There is a time to be born, and a time to die-- this we readily concede. But is there not also a time to live? Thus spoke the young Lord Ashley, later to be seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, a prince among reformers, a never-failing fount of philanthropy, as he addressed Parliament upon the Factory Act of 1844. Shaftesbury was born in 1801, in ...