... award a very high place to My Name is Michael Sibley (Gollancz, 9s. 6d.). Here Mr. John Bingham, allowing his narrator to speak in the first person, gives us a fine idea of the gradually closing net about the slightly neurotic, and very far from heroic ...

... the amorous education of a young French-Canadian boy from an odd household in Ottawa. Period the nineteen-twenties Here I speak for myself. Some good judges assure me that they enjoyed the occasion. My complaint is about the general thinness of texture ...

... Forester's knowledge of the sea manship and technical terms of the period is so profound that when his lieutenants are not speaking nautically, they sometimes seem to lapse from one century into another. I cannot feel certain that Don't take on so is ...

... Life becomes the First Choice of a fortnight in which, as the only new West End production staged for a run, it is-- so to speak-- returned unopposed. If the Bristol Old Vic's revival of The Two Gentlemen of Verona had been on for longer than a fortnight ...

... shall remember him defying the storm, and also his dazed misery while the Fool is a sad comforter at his side. Elsewhere, the speaking falls to monotony the poetry comes to us in inter mittent gusts. Some years ago Hugh Hunt produced King Lear imaginatively ...

... piece about the ghosts of children. The Corner Shop is more conventional, depending on a person being introduced as real, speaking and moving as a live being, but turning out to have been long dead at the time of his appearance. The First Night brings ...

... AND NOW A YOUTHFUL HORNBLOWER -By VERNON FANE Some Early Adventures of the Sea Dog Whom the English-speaking People Have Taken to Their Hearts 'THERE has to be a first time, as people are apt to say with a kind of gloomy philosophy, and so, I suppose ...

... law or members of the British Army. The only thing I did not show them was the rose-window glade what would be the use of speaking to these men about the death of celandine and primroses ...

... I shall think of the evening in terms of his line, Oh, the delights of love and burgundy Maxine Audley and Ruth Trouncer speak admirably for the plotting Lurewell and the chaste, the candied Angelica. As Wildair says in the last couplet Woman, Charming ...

... stories are told. The captured bandit gives one version of the killing. The distraught wife gives quite another. The dead man, speaking through the mouth of a woman medium, provides a third. And the servant of the outer story, with a malicious glance towards ...

... Childhood, a Formidable Father and a Gay and Volatile Mother -By VERNON FANE EDWARDIAN childhoods could be very happy-- I speak from some experience-- at least as happy as childhoods through the next three reigns, and Mr. Edward Hulton has an enchanting ...

... ELIZABETH I OF ENGLAND Milton Waldman's Brief Biography When we speak or write of the Elizabethan age-- and there is a strong inclination at the outset of a new Queen Elizabeth's reign to glance back across the centuries-- we think in terms of the spacious ...