... Miss Ebener writes as crisply and toughly as a Nepalese orchid, this is a book to remember. She has covered journalistically speaking a great expanse of the world's surface and she can write about what she observed as clearly, if not as objectively, as if ...

... Volume of His History of the English-Speaking Peoples in Burma and the Pacific a Rich and Varied Collection of Novels By VERNON FANE SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL tells us that the first volume of his HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (Cassell. 30s.), which appears ...

... and it was not until she reached Darwin, the last air-stop in Australia, under armed Russian guard, that she was able to speak to him on the telephone and make up her mind to stay in a free country. The story, as we have read it in newspapers, is a dramatic ...

... character of Canaris, and we can hazard a guess that it will be years yet before his mysterious role will be fully understood. I speak of Africa and golden joys, wrote Shakespeare, and this quotation aptly sums up the theme of Kathleen Courlander's new travel ...

... (Seeker and War burg. 15s.) is a long and, as the publishers tell us with commendable restraint, complex novel which, tersely speaking, is about the excavation more than fifty years before the story opens, of the tomb of a seventh-century bishop. In this grave ...

... People By VERNON JF ANE I AM neither impressed nor even distracted by Dr. Edith Sum merskill's political opinions, so that I speak without bias when I say that the doctor's book on box ing, THE IGNOBLE ART (Heine man. 10s. 6d.), will have the enthusiastic ...

... vivid and extremely engaging picture is created by his grand-daughter, Miss Aileen Smiles, of a plain man who liked plain speaking. He was, nevertheless, something of a snob, enjoyed travel in a thoroughly Victorian way, and was immensely full of energy ...

... Expert The Evolution of Jazz A Naval War Hero Eric Ambled s New Thriller and Other Fiction By VERNON FANE MOST people when they speak of the Edwardian age mean it in a fairly precise sense to refer to the King's own circle or, at the most, to that small world ...

... Murders in America; Crimes in Railway Trains and in the New Forest FOUR of this week's most im pressive novels have, broadly speaking, a theme in common. This is the examination of the effects of war on civilians, whether they be men or women or children ...

... the Mount with Communism, has entertained Russian clerics and is generally known in Belgravian and Pimlico purlieus, not to speak of the popular Press, as THE RED PRIEST (Methuen. 15s.). In his tenets, in his love for the beautiful wife who half-reluctantly ...

... Spottiswoode 10s. 6d.), which has a highly ingenious plot and the welcome leaven of humour. The advertisements, as they say, speak highly of it, and so will 1. THE- DIEHARD (Gollancz. 12s. 6d.) has the highly original merit of being not a whodunit but a ...

... the international city of Tangier, has written a chatty and practical kind of book about choosing a house in that city. He speaks of his alteration to both the building and the garden, the new furnishings and his efforts to create a satisfactory pattern ...