... Maestro of Conductors A Portrait of Toscanini Headhunters at War; a Life of Adventure; Impressions of Indo-China an American Cause Celebre New Novels and Thrillers -By VERNON FANE A SPLENDID and final answer to anyone of the old regime who inveighs against the introduc tion of radio into so many millions of homes might be the one word: Toscanini. For without radio and without the fact that ...

... Adventure at Eighty -By VERNON FANE Mrs. Patterson's Life in the Mountains Novels by Miss Rose Macaulay ancl Mr. Wyndham Lewis and a Selection of Other Fiction WHEN a lone woman decides to leave her cosy little home in San Francisco and make for the mountains and a remote and rickety log cabin, that is courageous enough, but it is even more so when one finds that she has recently come out of ...

... Sport from the Inside An American Journalist Looks Back Over Fifty Years At a time when some sections of sport are under the threat of falling into disrepute, not least professional boxing, much interest attaches to the frank but unembittered reminiscences of a sportswriter of the fame and standing of the late Grantland Rice, an American columnist. For half a century he watched golfers, boxers ...

... Autobiography and Biography Neil Bell's Life as a Writer A Study of Walt Whitman J. C. Powys' Book Shelf Adventures in War and in Peace Bristol's Public Libraries -By VERNON FANE THERE could scarcely be a writer less cynical or, on the other hand, less naive in his approach to the art and profession of writing than Mr. Neil Bell. He quotes that dictum of Epictetus: If you wish to be a good ...

... . Lyceum Theatre: August 21 to 25, Under Milk It ood, by Dylan Thomas. August 27 to September 1, Piccolo Teatro di Milano: rr- i!fcc^'no' the. Servant of Two Masters (Goldoni), To-night, We Improvise (Piran dello); m Italian. September 3 to 8: Fanny's First Play Acc/I, ,V,'llage Wooing, both by Shaw. Assembly Hall: August 20 to 25, Pleasure of Scotland --singing, dancing, etc. August 27 ...

... An Epic of Mountaineering Hermann Buhl's Ascent of Nanga Parbat a Guide-book to Rome Debased Murderers; Peter de Vries' Comic Novel Three Stories about Ships and Other New Fiction By VERNON FANE THAT wonderful day when we heard that Hillary and Ten sing had climbed to the summit of Everest is not likely to be forgotten by anyone in this country. It was a proud moment and it had been in a large ...

... Sir Winston's Finest Story The Magnificent First 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 this week, has been slumbering peacefully since the outbreak of the last war and ...

... Captive Private A Remarkable War Book In the library of prisoner-of-war books, THE LONG ROAD HOME, by Adrian Vincent (Allen and Unwin. 15s.), deserves a special place. The author neither tried to escape nor seemed to have thought of making the attempt. An infantry private, he was taken prisoner at Calais in May 1940 after five days in France. Without any heroics he describes life in a stalag ...

... A Book about Books Publishing and Selling a Circus Dynasty Life in the Parsonage Heinrich Heine a Historical Curiosity Novels Set in France and India Some New Thrillers -By VERNON FANE THERE can hardly be a more appropriate start for a book page than a volume that is all about books-- from the moment they are nearing publication to the time when they are seen on everyone's table, their titles ...

... Essential Warships A History of H.M. Destroyers The Curragh Mutiny Crime in America George Robey's Life Bee-keeping in Australia, and other New Novels By VERNON FANE AS Nelson continually com plained of the shortage of frigates, so no commander-in-chief in either world war ever had sufficient destroyers. So writes Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunning ham of Hyndhope, an old destroyer officer, ...

... German Spy Chief The Character of Admiral Canaris Perhaps the most astonishing personality thrown up by the Second World War was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, Chief of the German Military Intelligence. This man, who came of a prosperous Westphalian industrial family, was a most correct sort of person from the German point of view, having begun his career in the old Imperial Navy. But Canaris was ...

... Intellect and Faith -By VERNON FANE Hugh Ross Williamson s Autobiography Wife to Mr. Gladstone Bedouins and Burma; Essays by A I do us Huxley; Novels by Mary Borden and Stella Gibbons MR. HUGH ROSS WILLIAM SON was intended by his father to follow his path into the Nonconformist ministry. As many of us know, he did nothing of the kind but decided to take a look at the layman's world before he ...