... y successful, wrote Beside the Bonnie Briai Bush and other works in the same genre. He had an immense success in English-speaking America. Crockett, who followed the Kidnapped formula, was a prolific scribe indeed a good deal of a hack, and his novel ...

... United States, is not forgotten. Fitzgerald died in 1940, leaving behind him a handful of books belonging to the years of the speak-easy, the gangster, the flapper, and wood alcohol, also a great deal of rubbish for the most part pot-boilers. The Grey Walls ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Herbert Van Thai. The latest addition to the Windows on the World series is Negley Farson's CAUCASIAN JOURNEY (Evans. 12s. 6d.). SPEAK, MEMORY (Victor Gollancz. 16s.), is the title for a Memoir by Vladimir Nabokov. In IN THE STEPS OF GEORGE BORROW (Rich and ...

... CHURCHILL SPEAKS The Latest Collection of the Prime Minister's Speeches Edited by Randolph Churchill That the massive prose of Winston Churchill will stand the test of time there is no question, for his is the grand manner; and to what advantage did he ...

... on the career of one of our greatest actors. The period was a long as well as a rich one (1838 to 1905), and theatrically speaking marked a complete change in stage technique as well as in the status of actors. From the earlier view of them as rogues and ...

... undemarcated frontier of China and India about fourteen years ago. In these simple, direct and yet often lyrical chapters speaks not only the expert mountaineer but the explorer, and the man whose love of nature is overwhelming enough to affect his life ...

... writing, of a distinguished officer of the late Indian Army, who uses the nom-de-plume of Cornet. Although I necessarily speak as one who has seldom been farther east than Fen- church Street Station, I can genuinely say that I thoroughly enjoyed these ...

... AND NOW A YOUTHFUL HORNBLOWER -By VERNON FANE Some Early Adventures of the Sea Dog Whom the English-speaking People Have Taken to Their Hearts 'THERE has to be a first time, as people are apt to say with a kind of gloomy philosophy, and so, I suppose ...