... but not hippopotamus, and that a giraffe cow can almost decapitate a lion with the forward kick of a front hoof. And when he speaks of birds, and the colours of birds, Mr. Campbell becomes lyrical. His wanderings have taken him to many places, but with ...

... pleasure? Whatever the lovers find to say there is no reconciling their points of view. Time has separated them. They no longer speak the same language. There is not much they need to say; M. Anouilh has seen to it that the cleverly contrived and brilliantly ...

... worked harder than any poor y! He was one of the first to be killed in 14. little rat, is the phrase always used by Pah a in speaking to the writer, and the boo has a peculiar idiom deriving, not so mud: from any sort of unfamiliarity with the English language ...

... little overdoes the clowning proper to Dogberry and Miss Dorothy Tutin rather over-formalizes the heroine, but generally speaking there is no serious fault to be found with the company, and they have in the settings and the cos tumes of M. Mariano Andreu ...

... than to convey the same impression when the heroine has to be shown in dramatic action. Seeing her at close quarters, so to speak, we are able to judge for ourselves what degree of admiration is her due. Unless Mr. Wood had entirely remodelled the character ...

... award a very high place to My Name is Michael Sibley (Gollancz, 9s. 6d.). Here Mr. John Bingham, allowing his narrator to speak in the first person, gives us a fine idea of the gradually closing net about the slightly neurotic, and very far from heroic ...

... Forester's knowledge of the sea manship and technical terms of the period is so profound that when his lieutenants are not speaking nautically, they sometimes seem to lapse from one century into another. I cannot feel certain that Don't take on so is ...

... bonfires? You must have grown up there and have it in your bones, like wine and polenta, and then you know it without needing to speak about it, and every thing you have carried about inside you for so many years without knowing awakens now at the rattle of ...

... withdrawal of British Im perial rule and the con sequences that follow therefrom. In Locksley Hall Sixty Tears After, Tennyson speaks of evolution ever dragging revolution in its train. Put a D in front of evolution and you have this author's theme. ...

... ways of men were disturbing because, repellently as the insects resembled men, they remained, theatrically speaking, insects. Theatrically speaking, Mr. Spewack's characters are not ants at all. They are humans whimsically pretending in the spirit of a ...

... minutes and seconds which mean something very much to her and, in the telling, much to her audience. Mostly she is con cerned to speak of her life in Assam that (to me) terrible country where lurk horridly persistent flies, viciously biting ants, cockroaches ...

... is all that can be asked as an east wind, when at the end she has to veer to the tender' west and speak a nobly moving apostrophe to matrimony she speaks it nobly but somehow not movingly. It is as though she might be better at exhibiting emotions than ...