... his mental behaviour that irritated me. In fact, I found him tiresome and more than a little mad. Mr. Sassoon goes on to speak of other objec tions, but of greatly rewarding qualities in the book, and I can do no better than to say that on long reflection ...

... mind, and the gradual stages of his debauchery, are fully analysed, both in his diary and outside it (I have no space to speak of his wife's tragedy), until by the time he reaches his terrible end, the rather self-righteous young man of the early pages ...

... stable than it has been for years. Anyone who wants to die in Colorado can be assured that Mr. Hutchins is their best friend. I speak as if he were a real person and, indeed, it is hard to believe that Bert, as created by Hartley Power in Dalton Trumbo's play ...

... regime, her spirit and her wise isolation. With great modesty for on this subject each writer has known better than the last he speaks of what he understands of the Spanish character and admits that he knows no Spanish, yet he goes straight to the heart of ...

... At its heart is the doomed love of a pair of hunchbacks, the Ardele of the title, whom we never see, and a man who does not speak and whom we see for a moment only. Their love is fresh and unstained in a world of cynicism and cruelty. Anouilh is so anxious ...

... (Watergate) I NEVER thought that a night would come when I should meet Aegeon, the distraught father of The Comedy of Errors, speaking with a thick Lancashire accent and looking vaguely like the twin of Hartley Power as the undertaker of The Biggest Thief ...

... Empire, the Alhambra, the Tivoli, the Oxford and the Pavilion with the lamentable present-day London of--well. practically speaking, of the Palladium. It is an amiable delusion. We are all prone to it in some form or other. George IV actually thought in ...

... Palladium he waits to be squeezed. Ask him any preposterous question. After a second's premonitory rum ble, the oracle will speak Who won the Popplewell Plate at Kettering in 1853, sir Popplewell Plate Let me see, sir, that would be Dragoman'; Lord William ...

... Kingship Hi, JE. V. Knox THERE must be pride in being a direct descendant of Alfred the Great, of whom chroniclers can scarcely speak ill. Free man said: There is no other name to compare with his; he is the most perfect character in history. His work has ...

... experience. What do you think of the League of Nations? of shorts? of eugenics? of nudism? Did your mother spoil you Speaking of the liner, do you say le, or la Normandie? There is a rush of applicants since the salaries are good, and all candidates ...

... be a book of considerable value. He takes Auden, with T. S. Eliot, as the two most influential living poets in the English-speaking world, and his analysis is written in the light of that premise, with copious quotations from poems written at various stages ...

... speed of their movement, but for the sublime brevity of some of the conversational en counters. And who has been here? Come, speak! M. de Cavois. M. de Cavois? Yes, in person. The Captain of the Cardinal's Guards? Himself. The author was paid ...