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PLEASURE: ITS PURSUIT AND ENJOYMENT: Miss Langley Moore's Book is Full of Treasures; and a Selection of Other ..

... love. Miss Barbara Blackburn tells the story in the first person, through her young heroine, only forgetting that tliose who speak and act with the adolescent impetuousness of her Sally, are unlikely to be abe to tell a story as coherently. There is a fine ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1810 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THE AMATEUR THEATRE

... production by Frederick G. Lloyd, who is Controller of the huge theatre and had obviously been at pains to make the company speak up. Charles Viccars (Sir Henry Angkatell) was outstandingly good in this respect, but the whole company showed a refreshing ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4121 | Page: 21 | Tags: Review 

FROM VANDERBILT TO HEARST: A Survey by Stewart Holbrook of the Fabulous Fortunes Amassed by Americans; and a ..

... same source that drove Genghis Khan and Napoleon Bonaparte. Conquerors all. I don't know if there are other than English- speaking countries which so enjoy and revere the reminiscences of doctors, or novels by doctors cf Maugham, Cronin, Brett Young), ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1785 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

KING GEORGE'S LANDLORD: Fred Blackburn's Life of George Tomlinson

... modern times, showing how leadership of the sea has passed from Britain but clearly remains in the guardianship of the English-speaking peoples. The flag has been dipped. he says, but not hauled down. The story of Mrs. Leonowens, the Caernarvon girl who lost ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 891 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

HE BELIEVED IN HAPPINESS

... mysterious and complicated by the confession of the child's half-sister, Constance Kent. Criminologically speaking, a fascinating case to study humanly speaking, one of real horror. In settings, this week's novels range across the world, but several of them share ...

Published: Saturday 29 May 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1781 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A GALAXY OF GOVERNESSES: Miss Bea Howe's Book of the English Governess at Home and Abroad is as Instructive as ..

... invitation to a children's party is not a Nazi proclama tion to the conquered populace, but written in that way because they don't speak the language very well. Cousin Jan (Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) is a story of family life that has already had a broadcast success ...

Published: Saturday 12 June 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1816 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

TIMBER AND THE PROMS: A Memoir of Sir Henry Wood is One of This Week's Personal Reminiscences Whose Settings ..

... drama tic story of love and sudden deatl squalour and loyalties. We know that the Regency period is one in whicl literally speaking, Miss Georgette Heyer feels at horn1 and we recognise her as an expert in the age. TP; circumstances that delight her readers ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1745 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A CLOSE LOOK AT LIFE

... side anywhere in South-East Asia. Mr. Miller writes clearly and unsensationally, and has let a straightforward exposition speak for itself. He gives the origins of what is termed the Malayan Emergency, and explains the formation of the Malayan Communist ...

Published: Saturday 11 September 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1689 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

POLITICAL PREOCCUPATION

... African and English parentage. He is also on his way to becoming one of the most significant young writers in the English-speaking countries, and his new book has a quality that is clearly poetic. Mine Boy (Faber. 10s. 6d.) is a reprint of a 1946 novel ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1838 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A WRITER'S CHOICE: Somerset Maugham's Ten Novels and their Authors; Studies of Lewis Carroll and Gauguin; Ivor ..

... Islam. After that he travelled extensively and worked in North Africa, in the Middle East and finally in Pakistan. The book speaks of his change of faith, of the long period of disillusionment which led to it, and of his experiences in Mecca itself. The ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1782 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

CHELSEA SURVEY: William Gaunt and The Village

... of Chelsea there is a romantic aura. Everything about the village is interesting, not only to Londoners, but to English-speaking people all over the world, and the reasons are clear, many and various as William Gaunt ably shows in his new survey, CHELSEA ...

Published: Saturday 13 November 1954
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 903 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review