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... MUCH ADO WITHOUT JANISSARIES A Story of Seventeenth-Century Turkish Life A book with a most intriguing, but rather misleading, title is Alexander Pallis's IN THE DAYS OF THE JANISSARIES (Hutchinson and Co. 18s.). This is an account of Turkish life in the reign of Sultan Murat IV, when the Stuarts sat upon the English throne, and, as such, it is full of atmosphere; for it is based upon the ...
... The Brontes-- Yet Another Biography Giving the Reader Fresh Knowledge and a Complete Picture of the Family of Genius TO write a new biography of the Brontës must take, as well as talent and diligence, a certain courage, for there have been so many and, in Mrs. Gaskell's, one so surpassingly good. Miss Margaret Lane has been inspired to take exactly the right line in THE BRONTË STORY (Heinemann ...
... LISE LILLYWHITE AND MR. BELUNCLE Miss Margery Sharp and Mr. V. S. Pritchett Head the List of this 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 and wit, the result is apt to be a ...
... TWO NOVELS WITH CONTRASTING HEROINES By VERNON FANE Emma Laird's Rather Startling Book, Of Former Love, and Mary Dunstans Satisfying Novel, She Was Always There I HAVE read this week a com pelling, a rather wonderful and a startling book, in Emma Laird's novel, OF FORMER LOVE (Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.). This, in the form of a personal narrative, is the story of an intelli gent, even an ...
... CONTINUING THE TALE OF ROBERT ST AIRY -By VERNON FANE Kay Dick s New Novel Reveals Her Respect Jor Human Beings Even in Their Pettiness and Confusion MISS KAY DICK already has one novel and the beginning of a literary reputation to her credit, a reputation for the evocative talent and the meti culous choice of words which was justified by her first book, By the Lake. JN ow with Young Man ...
... PRIESTLEY'S FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE -By VERNON FANE A Novel that is Rich, Various, Warm, Witty, and Over and Above AH, the Most Glorious Fun A Heartening Example of Happy Fiction WHAT better thing can I tell you about Mr. J B. Priestley's new novel, FESTIVAL AT FARBRIDGE (Heinemann. 15s.), than that it is the most glorious fun? Rich, various, warm, witty and as human a book as one could read ...
... THE ANTHOLOGY OF A PUBLISHER -By VERNON FANE Hamish Hamilton Comments on his Twenty-One Years of Publishing IN his prefatory note to his anthology of twenty-one years of publishing, MAJORITY (25s. net), Mr. Hamish Hamilton says; Publishers' imprints are seldom noticed and their policies rarely appreciated. Nor is he com- plaining, for he only mentions it in order to acknowledge a rare ...
... Vandenbercs Volte-face for Victory The Son of One of America's Leading Republican Politicians Collates and Edits His Father's Private Papers By VERNON FANE SENATOR VANDENBERG, who died two years ago, was one of America's leading Republi can politicians, known in his youth for the purple patches and boom-boom technique of his oratory, in middle career for his spirited opposition to President ...
... BOSWELL: THE BEST REPORTER -By VERNON FANE The Latest Volume of His Private Papers is Probably the Most Important in the Series So Far; Other Books About People and Travel; and the Continued Spate of No vels A POINT about Boswell that must be made emphatically, and, if necessary, made again and again, is that he was just about the best reporter who has ever lived. He reported people, places, ...
... A WEEK OF NEW NOVELS The Autumn Publishing Season Gets Under Way with a Spate of New Novels by Distinguished Authors, Including Doris Less ing, R. C. Hutchinson, and Neil Gunn -By VERNON FANE NOVELS by distinguished authors, novels by new authors, novels by Welsh, German, Italian and American authors continue to come in, and what greater sign could one have of the current vitality of ...
... TRAVELS IN AN ARMCHAIR The Backgrounds of This Week's Books Range from England to the Far East -By VERNON FANE THE legend is that King Solo mon talked to a butterfly as a man would talk to a man, or so says Kipling, misreading Holy Writ. In KING SOLOMON'S RING (Methuen. 15s.) Dr. Kon rad Lorenz takes the title with some reason because he is a recog nised authority in the whole field of ...
... EVEREST Sir John Hunt's Story of the Great Assault Not since Scott's march to the South Pole and the tragedy and heroism of the return has there been a peacetime adventure that has moved men's minds and touched their hearts like the assault upon Mount Everest, the world's loftiest peak. Since 1921 successive expeditions have pitted their wits and their hardihood against the great mountain. Two ...