... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... siderable lustiness, too, and the same approach, half-scholarly, half-rollicking, to the customs and speech of the time. Speaking for myself, it is an age that I am heartily glad to have missed, out I cannot deny the vitality of the Lindsays' writing ...

... that actors spoke louder than words and, having made this observation in an actors' club, has not been heard from since. Speaking, however, is not the only thing that actors, and actresses, can do with words. Some of them can arrange them in very pleasant ...

... rather shape less drawings, and has added to the number of Irish tales she tells with so much charm and inconsequence. Miranda Speaks (Peter Davies. 9s. 6d.) has an attractive idea behind it, which is the search of a playwright for the ideal actress to play ...

... , and relates them, by his continuity of argument, to other Jacobean and Caroline dramas on which he is well qualified to speak as Lecturer in English at the University of Durham. Dr. Leech has a scholarly approach, but not one that is donnish. The World ...

... any sense fiction tor the hard metal of true experience shows through on nearly every page The publishers describe Simple Speaks His Mind (Gollancz. 9s. 6d.) as a heavenly book, and they are not very far from the mark. Mr. Langstoii Hughes is probably ...

... England with the man she wants to marry, to arrange a divorce and to see if she may take the child back with her. That, so to speak, is where we come in. All Else is Follv (Collins, gs. 6d.) consists of an account of the effect that England, her husband, ...

... the author held my interest less-closely, and I felt that he should have left his main thesis, which is Man against Fire, speak for itself through the medium of a single incident, without embroidery. Even one big forest fire can be a big enough subject ...

... appeal. The World oj Books SHAW'S CORNER IS OPENED TO THE PUBLIC Mr. H. W. Williams, Chairman of Hertfordshire County Council, speaking from the porch at the official opening of the home of the late Bernard Shaw at Ayot St. Lawrence. On his right is Lord Esher ...

... story of their five careers (the fifth brother is called Gummo and will have nothing to do with the stage or screen), and it speaks well for the author s stamina that he has been able to keep track of the brothers' doings, recount them without confusion ...