... certain other fish, but is happier in matching poultry, game and meat with their appropriate wines. As in his previous books, he speaks with authority and grace. BOOKS IN BRIEF THE CONSTABLE AND THE LADY. By John Bude. Macdonald 8s. 6 d.) A not unpleasing novelty ...

... carrying brass cans of tepid water. There was an early whimsical sketch of a lift. There was much blowing and bellowing down speaking- tubes. Any meal taken up to a bedroom involved about a hundredweight of metal dish-cover. The latest drama and literature ...

... appreciate his never- flagging zest for character-creation, from the Education Officer who has a word with the right people, speaks with his eyes closed, and is apt to say Erce, instead of some apparently coarser affirmative beginning with Y, to the celebrity ...

... him, and his widow, dying in 1897, left Hertford House and its treasures to a country whose language she always refused to speak. But it is much easier to say what Sir Richard Wallace did, than to be certain who he was. He had acted as agent for the fourth ...

... his major work. At the Cambridge, where the piece makes a long night indeed, much of the prose labours and not all of the speaking satisfies. Andre Huguenet's Hassan is direct and unremarkable Frederick Valk's Caliph was hard to hear at the premiere and ...

... Falstaff has gTown more confident, and Richard Burton's Hal is as restrained as before. Again, Harry Andrews's King Henry now speaking magnificently the invocation to Sleep commands I the Stratford stage. Alan Badel's I Shallow, a husk of a man, is well J ...

... the real thing at the Aldwych. And now we have had the real thing, with a cast as distinguished as that at the Haymarket. Speak ing for myself, I have to admit (in astonishment) that the first night of the new play was more exciting than the first night ...

... have relied too much on the overworked tricks and horrors which have scarcely changed since Horace Walpole made the English-speaking world shiver with his Castle of Olranto. This one enters new country, appallingly new, and though Miss Elizabeth Jane Howard ...

... a Biblical character. In these dreams each is seen through the sleeping thoughts of the others and each, in his own dream, speaks as at heart he is, not as he believes himself to be. The final dream changes to a state of thought entered into by all the ...

... in the memory. This Antony and Cleopatra have no need to maul each other, to play catch-as-catch- can. They let Shakespeare speak. That is and gloriously enough. The company follows its leaders. Norman Wooland understands that Enobarbus is a blunt soldier ...

... horror came on his face. Then I knew for certain that I was back in England. For I had committed the unforgivable crime of speaking without an introduction. Need I tell you that this is a book in a thousand It is as well to remember, when one is enjoying ...

... wait for corro boration. But I am never any good at anagrams Mrs. Christie has me well beaten here. I must be cautious in speaking of the cast. You will find no clues in the careful statement that Jeanne de Gasalis (fluttering her way through the night) ...