... MAN OF THE WORLD. More than five years ago Roger Livesey appeared in Peter Ustinoy's The Banbury Nose, which presented a man's life in reverse, running back from Z to A. Now here is the same actor in a play by a new dramatist, C. E. Webber, at the Lyric ...

... {Continued on page 628 From the Editor This is. as Elizabeth Bowen explains on the adjoining page the last article she will write for us on books. Readers will I know wish me to say on their behalf how very sorry they are at her departure from these pages. I ...

... business in Mr. Graves' company. From the same publishing house, but in rather different vein, is Laurence Scarfe's ROME (Hutchinson. 12s. 6d.). The author, a member of the younger generation of artists, has produced a scrapbook of impressions of the Eternal ...

... Mielche descended m a diving bell of his own designing to the palace of the Mermaid Queen a fairy forest, a landscape from another world, a Walt Disney fantasia, and saw other entrancing sights, including a Cuban cock-fight After You, Columbus (Hodge, ...

... SOME VARIED, RURAL EXCURSIONS Selections from Beach Thomas and from A. G. Street; Miss Rider Haggard's A Country Scrap-Book -By VERNON FANE FOR a great many of us, one of the joys of Sunday morning is reading a particular half-column of graceful prose ...

... VERNON FANE FROM all over the world-- or so we confidently hope-- people will be coming to London this summer, and to greet them, besides the Festival and the newly- flowered face of London, will be a number of books and histories and guides. From these they ...

... enchanting novel, and it has been just what I would have expected from Mr. Charles Morgan. A BREEZE OF MORNING (Macmillan. ios. 6d.) is the story, slight from one point of view, profound from another, of a schoolboy's love and discernment, both of them on ...

... , in fact stretching it to include the nineties and to last till the First World War released the social revolution, Mr. Gore's Edwardian Scrapbook promises only a scrapbook, an old screen with old prints and old cuttings pasted upon it at every angle ...

... Moss television transmitter, which came into operation on October 12, is the highest and most powerful of its kind in the world. There is also a standby aerial on a 150-ft. mast (seen on the right of the main mast) with its own controls (below). Though ...

... admirably liberal, erudite and amusing. Certainly Mrs. Raverat lived in one of Cambridge's most en chanting houses, from a child's, if not from a housekeeper's, point of view. Mr. J. C. Smuts has written a biography of the great man who was his father, and ...

... written what he calls a scrapbook of the '20's, and has chosen for it the kind of title one might choose at a games-playing party, For Whom the Cloche Tolls (Methuen. 10s. 6d.) The volume itself is in the shape of a small scrapbook and illustrated by the ...

... illustration from London Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, by Sir Ambrose Heal (Batsford £6 6s.), a magnificent volume embodying thirty years of research. It forms the first public record of the principal cabinet-makers and their auxiliaries, from the dawn to ...