... his character, and it may equally well be true. He was young when he died there, only thirty-two and the records of his time speak of the personal sorrow that was felt all over England, a sorrow that inspired more than two hundred elegies. In a sense his ...

... Kentucky Mountains, where semi- starvation and hopeless back-breaking work seem to be the rule, and where the local people speak a dialect that is remarkably vivid if you can catch the words. Hunter's Horn (Collins. 12s. 6d.) is straight out of the department ...

... of Civil Defence, and a hilarious sketch of some aspects of the Home Guard, as organised in a remote village. Mr. Vulliamy speaks clearly through his chosen characters, and sometimes prophetically. I was trying to explain that Liberalism is an attitude ...

... siderable lustiness, too, and the same approach, half-scholarly, half-rollicking, to the customs and speech of the time. Speaking for myself, it is an age that I am heartily glad to have missed, out I cannot deny the vitality of the Lindsays' writing ...

... that actors spoke louder than words and, having made this observation in an actors' club, has not been heard from since. Speaking, however, is not the only thing that actors, and actresses, can do with words. Some of them can arrange them in very pleasant ...

... rather shape less drawings, and has added to the number of Irish tales she tells with so much charm and inconsequence. Miranda Speaks (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) has an attractive idea behind it, which is the search of a playwright for the ideal actress to play ...