... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... patience play as important a part as iorutuae. Mr. C. T. Stoneham appears to have been in some kind of adventure from the time he ran away from school at the age of seventeen and made for Canada. It was a country which appealed to him as a land of opportunity ...

... domination of the world. Like all great leaders Roosevelt aroused men's passions to the point of apotheosis on the one hand and virulent hatred on the other. That this was manifest in his own country more than in the rest of the world is understandable ...

... waged against Russia at th beginning of the last world conflict. Told from the poin of view of a rank-and-file soldier, this has sincerity, patho and the hallmark of true experience. Verno; Fane The World of Books THE SATURDAY BOOK 17: The book jacket ...

... end of the scale in sea stories. Commander Victor Clark, D.S.C., R.N., who retired from the Royal Navy in 1953 with a brilliant war-record, set out two months later from Lymington in his 33-ft. ketch Solace on a journey that was to take him 48,000 miles ...

... sen illustra tions, ranging from the white horse cut in the Berkshire Downs, at Uffington, to the barn at Great Coxwell or the glorious effigies in West minster, Worcester and Wells, help us to visualise the vanished world described so glowingly. Clive ...