... the visits to Constantinople and Athens, the tour in the Near East. With July 181 r open the years of fame. The 1811-1815 section (London, lionisa- tion, the frenzying entanglement with Caroline Lamb, the con current friendship with her mother-in-law Lady ...

... Windsor (where only classical music might be played) and, when etiquette was thrown off for a while, an astonishing amount of fun and games. There are times in fact when one almost seems to be reading anecdotes of festal romps at the court of the young King ...

... conversations up and down the gravel alleys of a house outside Paris where languages are taught to young gentlemen and in donnish fun, tinctured with donnish malice at college tea-parties. A Question of Upbringing (Heinemann. gs. 6d.) has a title which ma)' ...

... it. So they were. But the lesson went deeper into the Boche mind, and had more abundant fruition. Service (and plenty of fun) in India, was followed by bridge building and his Irregular Pioneers of the South African War. But the Ole Luk-Oie, who was ...

... nearly-model factory, who is the girl's father. There is some sly fun about the various situations, but, in the main, Mr. Clewes has had the more serious purpose of showing us the workings of a section of industrial England. Since he is himself the organisation ...

... marriage in France to the lady who was Mrs. Wallis Simpson. For many, however, and myself among them, the most interesting sections of the book are those dealing with the Duke's boyhood, for here is most clearly revealed his parents' own pattern of life ...

... Week's New Novels and Mr. Hesketh Pearson Presents his Biography of Disraeli -By VERNON FANE WHEN Miss Margery Sharp takes a section of our contemporary English life, as lived in London and Somerset, and proceeds to examine it with her own kind of coolness ...

... accompanied by gover nesses, servants, magpies and cats. Very good fun, though, again, possibly better in the telling than in the experiencing. Mr. Norman Denny is an author with a nice sense of fun, running in harness with a lively sense of the macabre, an unusual ...

... weakness, comes to New Orleans to stay with her married sister. She is appalled by the conditions she finds there, in a tenement section that is a ruin of leprous, old-time grandeur. Everything about the place is repulsive to what is left of her once fastidious ...

... as idyllic with the baby as bare as any other cherub on deck, in the shallows for his first swim, in his nursery (a small section of a bunk), taking his first sailing lesson perched on the boom, and otherwise disporting himself as idyllic, in fact, as ...

... fashioned pounds) on a two-hour, Monday- Friday offering, called To-day. This is broadcast from 7-9 a.m. in fifteen-minute sections, and consists of news, weather reports, time signals, popular records, inter views and announcements of outstanding events ...

... Hospital during their own period. A hard life in many ways, yet they remembered it with gratitude. These reminiscences make up a section of the book entitled The Golden Generation, comprising more than 120 pages. But the more ancient and the quite modern portions ...