... would like put things simply to better herself. Instead, she :fts (as though fated) into a world of shady dance- 11s and back-street crime. y-R. Bates has made us feel to the full the \J I ingenuous innocence of Laura also her -^-youthful grace. So much ...

... it gets under way. Twelve O' Clock High is simply a story about a bomber group in the U.S. Eighth Air Force (in which both the authors served) stationed in England, during the early days of precision bombing. The morale of the crews has cracked through ...

... however, the danger of a number of readers knowing Byron only at one remove; through the medium of other, explaining minds. Let us miss no opportunity of direct approach. Such approach is offered by Byron: Letters and Diaries-- A Self-portrait --edited ...

... have since those dates, I imagine, been repeats. Rayner Heppenstall, of the B.B.C., who contributes the general preface, tells us that he wrote The Fool's Saga because he so much enjoyed producing The Hawk and the Handsaw which was, he adds, from the ...

... novel, Abide With Me (Seeker and Warburg, ios. 6d.), which deals exhaustively with the problems of the mortuary art. In England and other European countries, an undertaker is apt to be an undertaker, a member of a respectable but not highly publicised ...

... his death in 1948 at the age of thirty-one: the loss to modern literature has been immeasurable. He had as his friend tells us in the foreword to the last novel suffered thirteen years of chronic and painful ill ness caused by a road accident in which ...