... 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 ...

... an Introduction to his most interesting book, Profitable Forestry (Faber and Faber; 15s.), Lord Bolton writes: broadly speaking, it can be said that private woodlands of 100 acres or over should not show a loss in any year and, under good management ...

... phoney: a fake, dust and ashes. The Waltz is in some ways a rancid piece and, having included it long ago in an anthology, I speak without prejudice but in the theatre it is also harshly comic, and, in some scenes, terrifying. It is just another of the views ...

... thoroughly, and the author's style is very readable, though one could wish that we might be spared the horrid word gunner in speaking a syndicate shoots a preying of stockbrokers is nice Incidentally, Mr. Arnold is not condemning the syndicates out of hand ...

... 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 ...

... Goodman. (Weid- enfeld and Nicolson 12s. 6d.), which concerns an old judge, who, in an age of mass communications, still speaks the language of Addison, and his under graduate grandson who wants to drive a jeep to the Mountains of the Moon. The publishers ...

... 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 ...

... the programme. Even so and this is the point we still hear the play. There are reasons now and then for a charge of under-speaking but, before the charges are made, an accuser must decide whether his (or her) hearing is as good as it ought to be, and whether ...

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... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... because his anniversary is due. For a few days there is a scrimmage over the poor fellow's body. At other times we do not speak of him he is not in the list of anniversaries. An odd business but we all conform, and I suppose we shall go on with it. At ...