... doubtless produced a formidably impressive figure. In a back street in Dieppe I picked up a secondhand copy of a book by Conan Doyle which I chanced never to have read. It was, I believe, the author's favourite. One or two of the stories of the Adven tures ...

... story told by his father, who sat under Professor Joseph Bell, of Edinburgh. Dr. Bell was, of course, the model from whom Conan Doyle borrowed the deductive faculties which enabled Holmes, after one glance at a new client, to reveal his occupation. age, ...

... indeed was much more our home-brewed cup of tea. And, of course, Holmes and Watson, the abnormal and the typical Englishman. Conan Doyle combined the qualities of both in a middle-type of Englishman. Years ago, when the last dozen of the Holmes stories were ...

... from the authors in their authentic hands. I have no rare edition of any of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and a letter from Conan Doyle, in which he listed for me his own ranking in merit of his Holmes adventures, after standing as an exhibit at the Holmes ...

... our own people, who arc not very notable for logic and clarity of reasoning and for accuracy. It has become necessary for Conan Doyle's daughter to clear up a lot of misunder standings about the author and the creation, and about the author's claim to be ...

... good supply of reading matter. I find one of the omnibus collections of the writings of well-known novelists, especially Conan Doyle, an invaluable companion. This is the first of two articles on European holidays. My next, which will appear in these pages ...

... son, Lister and Rutherford. The election was a very serious matter. No one offered, on behalf of Britain, in literature Conan Doyle or Elinor Glyn or even Jane Austen or Dickens, nor in science any of our most recent stars, but Britain ran fourth, following ...

... who, in 1937, crashed on the summit when engaged on an expedition in search of gold in this area, often associated with Conan Doyle's Lost World. It took Angel three weeks to walk back to civilisation. ...

... featured Raymond Francis as Dr. Watson and Alan Wheatley as Holmes. C. A. Lejeune adapted the series for television from Conan Doyle's famous detective stories. The plot of La Belle H6lhne begins to thicken. This popular Offenbach operetta was recently ...

... down Miss Beatrix Potter It would be nice to think that the Sydney Paget drawings of Sherlock Holmes faithfully reflected Conan Doyle's vision, but Doyle seems to have tolerated a large selection of versions of Holmes, until the day came when he was thoroughly ...

... enterprising publisher Robert Laffont, who specialises in translating English-language books, has just issued a stout volume of Conan Doyle's master-work con taining some of the most famous of Holmes's adventures, and he promises to publish the complete series ...

... River spurts to form the highest waterfall in the world. This is the region which is supposed to have inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World. j igpigg ANGEL FALLS, THE HIGHEST WATER FALL IN THE WORLD The falls plunge from the summit of Auyan- ...