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A WINTER BOUQUET

... and who hopes to make the reader share his feeling. In a market as crowded and competitive as is, currently, the English-speaking fiction market, it is reasonable that there should be a small book of practical advice on the specialised subject of the ...

Published: Saturday 08 January 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1807 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A BIOGRAPHICAL ENQUIRY: This is the Sub-Title of Richard Aldington's Lawrence of Arabia a Book which is certain ..

... the remarkable character of the author. Like Heinricli I Iarrer, he became very fond of the Tibetans (whose language he both speaks and writes), and a streak of mysticism in his character enabled him to enter into tne spiritual side ot tneir lile more folly ...

Published: Saturday 29 January 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1849 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE TRAGIC ASSAULT ON K2: A Wonderful Story of Endurance, Mountain Genius and Courage; Miss Roth Tells her ..

... the ninety-year span of her life, which extended from 1818 to 1908, and which, because of her connections, allowed her to speak with equal familiarity of Mendelssohn and Wagner, Chopin and Liszt. Miss Averil Mackenzie- Grieve has written her story with ...

Published: Saturday 07 May 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1709 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

AN ALL-TIME LOW: Two Explorers who Have Plumbed the Ocean Depths

... authors say, the starting-point has been won. The real researches are about to begin. Men and women throughout the English-speaking world remember the profound shock and the sense of personal loss with which they heard the news of the death of Franklin ...

Published: Saturday 28 May 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 907 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

SAVAGE AND THRILLING READING: A Tale of Zulus, and their Legendary Chief, Shaka Zulu; My Story, by Sir Gordon ..

... account to give of himself, forthright, clearly stated and modest without being coy, but also engages in some admirably plain speaking. For instance, he writes at one point This is the story of a successful life, and so, I suppose, I shall not be able to escape ...

Published: Saturday 09 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE ENGLISH CHARACTER: Geoffrey Gorer' s Investigation Into the Lives of His Fellow-Countrymen; Peter ..

... questionnaires from which Mr. Gorer quotes constantly, with the result that throughout these pages the reader finds the English speaking for themselves. The author's own final comment is just as worthy of quotation and very revealing When I was reading, with ...

Published: Saturday 16 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1704 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

TURBULENCE AND REVELATIONS: A Biography of Norman Douglas; Further Memoirs of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart; A ..

... well as persuading a lot of other people to become British, that we have almost forgotten what it means to be English. So speaks one of the characters in this extremely bright first novel, and your reviewer owns to agreeing with his sentiments, while ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1791 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A COURAGEOUS WOMAN

... her family's menfolk, she and her children are swept into the industrial vortex of Detroit, a jungle filled with people who speak with strange accents, who behave in out landish ways, and whose way of life is written with a strange and angry impermanency ...

Published: Saturday 06 August 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1628 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

SUMMING UP BALMORAL: Mr. Ivor Brown has Written Its History in an Entertaining Story; and a Selection of Novels ..

... tolerated, if they are schoolmasters, like one of the characters in this case, or ostracised, if they are free-drinking, free-speaking couples such as the Kirbys of the story, whose marriage is breaking up and who come to the place as what one might be allowed ...

Published: Saturday 20 August 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2216 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A FOREIGN MINISTER SPEAKS OUT: Dr. Karl Gruber Writes of Austria in the Post-War World; My First Seventy-Six ..

... A Foreign Minister Speaks Out Dr. Karl G ruber Writes of Austria in the Post-War World; My First Seventy-Six Years, by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht and Other New Publications -By VERNON FANE DR. KARL GRUBER, who is now Austrian Ambassador in Washington, has written ...

Published: Saturday 03 September 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2107 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

A GREAT AND LONELY HERO: The Story of Captain Durrani, G.C.; Hannibal's Elephants; Scotland in the Seventeenth ..

... Whitman. Fit for a Bishop (Peter Davies. 10s. 6d.) is a kind of cookbook, containing a good deal of sound advice, some plain speaking about garlic (pro) and veal (con), and a number of recipes of which I had tried two within twenty-four hours of reading it ...

Published: Saturday 26 November 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1643 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review