... of Civil Defence, and a hilarious sketch of some aspects of the Home Guard, as organised in a remote village. Mr. Vulliamy speaks clearly through his chosen characters, and sometimes prophetically. I was trying to explain that Liberalism is an attitude ...

... satisfactorily. The time is the very near future, and it is comforting to be able to report that human beings still look and speak normally, and that such institutions as the Treasury, advertising agencies and Soho afternoon-clubs still exist. The menace ...

... her family's menfolk, she and her children are swept into the industrial vortex of Detroit, a jungle filled with people who speak with strange accents, who behave in out landish ways, and whose way of life is written with a strange and angry impermanency ...

... about theevent, the little ship's return to port, and the consequent world wide sensation. A foreword by Miss Pearl S. Buck speaks of the account as having the size and power of Greek tragedy, and so it might be if the Greeks, instead of the Americans, ...

... platforms and appealing with more or less success to varying audiences. Mrs. Emily Kimbrough, for instance, specialises in speaking to those formidable bodies, women's clubs, and her volume of reminiscences on the subject is surely more hilarious than the ...

... (Seeker and War burg. 15s.) is a long and, as the publishers tell us with commendable restraint, complex novel which, tersely speaking, is about the excavation more than fifty years before the story opens, of the tomb of a seventh-century bishop. In this grave ...

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... Kentucky Mountains, where semi- starvation and hopeless back-breaking work seem to be the rule, and where the local people speak a dialect that is remarkably vivid if you can catch the words. Hunter's Horn (Collins. 12s. 6d.) is straight out of the department ...

... to Peter Pan WHEN in their wisdom the law-givers of the United States passed the 18th Amendment-- the whole nation, so to speak, signing the pledge-- they discovered only too soon that they had set in train a crime wave of appalling proportions. Here ...

... and full of vitality. Mr. Hall writes with considerable gusto and his book is as readable as young leaves are green. DON'T SPEAK TO STRANGERS (Mac- niillan. 13s. 6d. by Miss G. R. McCallum, is another first novel, this time from Australia: a touching, ...

... towards her as if it had found a relation. Ah said Colette, sitting down on the edge of the pavement, at last someone who speaks French. CLOSE TO COLETTE (Seeker and Warburg. 21s.) is a book of enchantments and is a must for all lovers of Colette's writing ...

... both touching and continuously interesting. THE RETURN OF GUNNER ASCH (Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 13s. 6d.) is a title that speaks for itself for it is the third book in Hans Hellmut Kirst's series of satires on the German Army and the German military mind ...