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... pangs will be relieved. I have just read a book which proves this point amply, and very funnily, which is why I am able to speak with such authority. BE GUIDED BY ME (Michael Joseph. 15s.) has been written by M. Guy Abecassis and crisply translated from ...
... Hatoongo and A. E. Chizu Above: In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, the Governor, Sir Humphrey Gibbs, listens in to an English-speaking course for policement in a new Government training centre. He is watched by Mr H. Reedman (left), the Parliamentary Secretary ...
... paper-backs, with pride of place going perhaps to the first two volumes of Sir Winston Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE. Both are published by Cassell at 10s. net. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, takes us to the end of the reign of Richard ...
... of Shelley, whom he revered, and finally succumbed to a heart stroke. The first manifestations of this prevented him from speaking any language but his native Swedish. Alfred Nobel died on Decem ber 10, 1896, with no one to whisper comfort to him in his ...
... survey by Sir Percival Griffiths Sir Percival Griffiths, in assessing THE CHANG ING FACE OF COMMUNISM (Bodley Head. 21s.), speaks and writes with the authority stem ming from many visits to the Asian countries where Russia and China are most anxious to ...
... MORE FOR YOUR GARDEN (Michael Joseph. 18s.) are not designed as serious essays but as topical journalism, horticulturally speaking. Never theless, this writer being the natural stylist she is, these pieces have their own elegance as well as their own ...
... his character, and it may equally well be true. He was young when he died there, only thirty-two and the records of his time speak of the personal sorrow that was felt all over England, a sorrow that inspired more than two hundred elegies. In a sense his ...
... take it further would be immeasurably difficult. If I went on with it, keeping to the sequence of events, I would have to speak of years and circumstances, of people and of destinies contained within the framework of the Revolution. Of a world of aims ...
... socialism. Such a fellow can turn the world inside out. All this is mixed with Goebbels' going on and on about his journeys to speak at meetings, his love-life, his endless pessi mism about bestial man. The book ends with Goebbels appointed to the Berlin district ...
... that in the sixteen years since his death, the inventor of Fascism was almost totally neglected by writers in the English- speaking world. Christopher Hibbert's BENITO MUSSOLINI (Longmans. 25s.) goes quite a way in repairing this omission. The author has ...
... ry novel in Cuba, and Afro-Cubanism. One realises on reading this book how late in literary development were the English-speaking West Indies. This has been made up for lately, but Mr. Coulthard's consideration of the works of men like Selvon and Lamming ...
... African and English parentage. He is also on his way to becoming one of the most significant young writers in the English-speaking countries, and his new book has a quality that is clearly poetic. Mine Boy (Faber. 10s. 6d.) is a reprint of a 1946 novel ...