... A DEAD MAN FIGHTS FOR ENGLAND Sir Duff Cooper's Remarkable Novel, a Model for Young Writers in its Superb Simplicity -By VERNON FANE SIR DUFF COOPER'S story, OPERATION HEARTBREAK (Hart-Davis. 8s. 6d.), is a little gem. It is also an example of how an ...

... is exactly the same. The stage and screen have made much of the procedure familiar to us, though often in an over-dramatised and lurid form, and novels have helped us to learn such exotic titles as the D.A. by heart. So that when we come to read Court ...

... headquarters of the Russian trade delegation in England, of whom Nikolai Andrienko is the head. But getting an interview with Mr. Andrienko is as difficult as breaking into the vaults of the Bank of England. Phone calls meet with the same response. A woman ...

... to a French speculator on the London Stock Exchange. In this realistic vein Dr. Stringfellow Barr, who is already known to us as the author of a life of Mazzini, presents his erudite new volume, THE PILGRIMAGE OF WESTERN MAN (Victor Gollancz. 7s. 6d ...

... belong in spirit to this age, who so often in his books has revealed a longing for the unusual in scene and custom, now takes us on a journey to SPAIN (B. T. Batsford. 16s.). This is surely the most successful of all Mr. Sitwell's art-cum-travel books (although ...

... old isolationism has at last learned that we cannot withdraw from the world. The new isolationism holds that international co-ODeration is a fantasv and that the U.S. must run the world single-handed. No stauncher advocates of that doctrine will be found ...

... has been translated by Mr. Eric Northcott. Many were the defects and shortcomings of the Parliament of eighteenth-century England, writes the author, yet it was not only the stage, but also the cradle of great men. Where else in the whole of Europe, before ...

... first autumn snows, about fifty years ago. The snows are important, but thp period is not, except for the extra isolation it used to impose. For Mr. Walter van Tilburg Clark's novel, in spite of the dramatic nature of its setting, is mainly one of character ...

... ical, historical, political and social, whose inexhaustible riches are mined from the greatest city in the history of the world. As a scholar and as a novelist he has been able to communicate his own joy in the present and past of the place, and to guide ...

... adventure and courage. It consists of extracts from the journals and letters o early colonists in the countries we used, as it seemed to us quite properly, to call our colonies. These papers have been edited with an admirable lack of comment by Mr. John ...

... since it achieves that dream of ambitious biographers, of creating and sustaining interest in a character who in spite of world-wide fame, has few of the obvious attractions. Miss Nightingale, for instance, was autocratic, domineering, harsh, and at the ...

... GIN-PALACE ART A Wide-ranging Survey on Public-house Decor The world of art is preoccupied these days with the decor of the English public-house. There is much talk of reinterpreting the English public-house tradition in a modern manner, and there has ...