... undemarcated frontier of China and India about fourteen years ago. In these simple, direct and yet often lyrical chapters speaks not only the expert mountaineer but the explorer, and the man whose love of nature is overwhelming enough to affect his life ...

... writing, of a distinguished officer of the late Indian Army, who uses the nom-de-plume of Cornet. Although I necessarily speak as one who has seldom been farther east than Fen- church Street Station, I can genuinely say that I thoroughly enjoyed these ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... tortuous as it is feasible. I liked the theatre setting, too, and the natural ease of the dialogue, whether it comes, so to speak, from a cop or a robber. High marks for this one, and, as ever, to the Inspector. French Strikes Oil (Hodder and Stoughton ...

... avoided the use of positively embarrassing Americanese for his three transatlantic characters, the female one of whom is made to speak like a 1929 version of a cow boy's cowgirl. Apart from that, the plot is cleverly contrived and the Gloucestershire setting ...

... defence of the indefensible with which Gide shocked the world in his earlier days. R. C. E. The World of Books SOMERSET MAUGHAM SPEAKS AT THE OPENING OF TWO EXTENSIONS OF THE WINDMILL PRESS AT KINGSWOOD, SURREY The occa sion, which was also the twenty-fifth ...

... power in each country was exclusively in the hands of such people, each forming part of a world wide family. There indeed speaks the true voice of the nineteenth century, the century in which V on Papen has his roots, and time and time again in these ...

... a number of people she has known, or whose existence has in some way affected hers. Women, we are told, are apt to write, speak and think from an acutely personal point of view, and this rather tiresome generalisation does at least apply to Mrs. Henrey's ...

... long as the Western stock piles include a supply of what our American friends, with their addiction to slick terminology, speak of as intestinal fortitude,' and what we, in our clumsy, old-fashioned way, call guts,' then all can never be lost. Madeleine ...

... to Bernard Shaw that he had never appeared in one of his plays. Nor will you, replied that gentleman. I prefer actors to speak the lines I write. I hear that you prefer your own. Nothing damped, and in fact delighted, Matty has been going irom strength ...