... One and all, they transcend themselves one is proud to know them. Thicker than Water is so good a novel that one is loath to speak of it as a social document. Here, none the less, is an unbiased picture of the Welfare State, opportunities balanced against ...

... women, becomes a dominant symbol of our century fitly, his outline punctuates Thurber's Dogs. The drawings in this volume speak more than volumes. Enjoy them laugh if you dare lAr AT iAT GB. Stern's new novel, FOR ALL WE KNOW (Collins 13s. 6 d.), opens ...

... than those dismal re-enacted problems m Godfrey Winn's As Others See Us. But no Mackenzie reporting on a Burns dinner should speak of a haggis as an alien sight. Freda Bruce Loch-hart c Television SOUND ADVICE FROM MOTHER is given by Barbara Couper to Anthony ...

... words reveal why this day is the finale of Fountain Court. In their dire way the closing chapters are splendid and humanly speaking, let me assure you, the ending is anything but unhappy. The Half-Crown House, unless I am very wrong, should be one of the ...

... If he came to grief it was not because his reading lacked understanding, but because he has not yet mastered the art of speaking verse not only for its sound but for its meaning. Only his finest passages had the ring of utter con viction. But there were ...

... book-jacket, that this type of foster home is fortunately a thing of the past. Kitty's attachment to Bridgeburn, in after days, speaks surely for some sense of home to be found there A CONTEST OF LADIES (Hogarth Press, 13s. 6d.) is William Sansom's latest book ...

... unless they have been living for the last year or two in a long dream this is a matter of how you do not speak if you are Upper Class, and how you do speak if you are not. A good deal of ink has been spilt and bad blood exuded one might ask oneself why this ...

... incorrigible Old Cock is in the Shakespearean comedy tradition those parts which used to be cut for schoolroom reading. Modernly speaking, Mr. Mankowitz has done (and high time, too) for the Cockney English what James Joyce did for the Dublin Irish. He's been ...

... TIven those who do not readily grasp what Jj exactly Mr. Eliot is getting at are given all possible help by the actors, who speak most of the sinewy, analytic verse with a beautiful expressiveness, and by the subtle changes of atmosphere which the producer ...

... . The need to soothe the public, to impress the tax-payer, the Ministry, the politi cians, to outfly their rivals, not to speak of the more interesting, personal ones of building the odd empire, ditching the next man, pleasing the boss made the going ...

... perform ance. The performance is dominated by Mr. Ron Moody as the student prince played by a young clerk who is too shy to speak in the presence of departmental chiefs in the audience, and takes refuge from criticism in magnificent gestures. Miss Ruby ...

... resolved to get his client acquitted. Sensationally, he refuses to cross-examine the captain. So the I decks are cleared, so to speak, for a tooth-and- nail conflict of evidence. Mr. Herman Wouk manages this conflict with a great deal of art, mixing human interest ...