... appreciated and relished by people who have been following it, on pitch and on paper, for years, and who know that when one speaks of England being in a tight corner it has nothing to do with dollar reserves or oil wells. These people will find Bumper (Latimer ...

... standards, a very-well- mannered novel controlled but never tame, shapely, intelligent and reasonable in the sense that the French speak of une femme raisonnable, meaning, presumably, one with whom it is possible to reason. Celia Dale, the author, has enchanted ...

... prefaces it with these words from Hamlet If thou art privy to thy country's fate which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O speak. That is exactly what Whittaker Chambers has done in accents clear and bold. The facts are all there as Chambers has presented ...

... JONES-- THE FATHER OF THE U.S. NAVY Vice-Admiral J. Wright, U.S.N. the C.-in-C. of U.S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic, is speaking from the platform outside the cottage in Kirkbean, Scotland, where Paul Jones was born. The plaque was given by the Army-Navy ...

... the Diocesan Bishop) seen at London Airport before leaving for Montreal. During their three- month tour of Canada they are speaking at meetings in an endeavour to raise £100,000 towards the building fund of the new cathedral. The cost of the cathedral is ...

... in that brief scope his published work was strong enough and original enough to have had a lasting impact on the English-speaking world of letters and in the European. The Haunted Man (Hutchinson. 16s.) is a biography, or portrait, of him by Mr. Philip ...

... unwelcome, but Mr. Coates tells us that he was blessed with an Aunt Eliza who had sterner (and more original) stuff in her. Speak well back in your throat, Eric, she would say to him, and remember you are descended from the Welsh Kings. I think you will ...

... his brother, Bertrand Russell, and of Lytton Strachey, Robert Bridges and the brilliant acquaintances of his Oxford days. He speaks of the Mediterranean, the Near East and his final retirement in Italy, but saves the most loving words for England I loved ...

... subjection to the fiercest competition, the fiercest discipline and the fiercest criticism that I know and I am not here speaking of newspaper criticism, but of behind-the-scenes criticism by managers and producers and fellow-actors. Amateurs seldom get ...

... most chroniclers' art. Mr. Johnston, brave as a tiger, takes them on in one of the season's most hilarious and, strictly speaking, least edifying books, of which I have enjoyed every word, oirnn 4*/-\ 4-lrfl oppoeinnnl rnnnf i_ LVL1I IW L11C UVL/CIOIVJIIUI ...

... production by Frederick G. Lloyd, who is Controller of the huge theatre and had obviously been at pains to make the company speak up. Charles Viccars (Sir Henry Angkatell) was outstandingly good in this respect, but the whole company showed a refreshing ...

... love. Miss Barbara Blackburn tells the story in the first person, through her young heroine, only forgetting that tliose who speak and act with the adolescent impetuousness of her Sally, are unlikely to be abe to tell a story as coherently. There is a fine ...