... The History of the English-Speaking Peoples Reminiscences of a Diplomat, a Conscientious Objector and an Actress Frith's Memoirs THE scope of the new and third volume of Sir Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples is as vast as before ...

... too often fails to reach that imposes a desolatingly mechanical effect on his whole performance. The lifelessness of his speaking explains, I think, why he seems only the pale counterfeit of the Hamlet we recognize instantly in many widely different readings ...

... A WRITTEN-OFF PLAY COMES TO LIFE A t th e Theatre IN what, practically speaking, is still unknown Shakespeare, the Old Vic is doing fine business. The din as the Lords of York and Lancaster curse and kill, and are cursed and killed in turn, can almost ...

... pitches the humor ous sadness of Jaques well on this side of settled melancholy, showing him as the pure intellectual who speaks to surprise and cares for nothing but his own intellectuality. He professes melancholy but smiles at it and at everyone and ...

... the occasional empty flourish at the end of a phrase, as if the ghost of that theatrical long swell, Captain Hawtree, were speaking, improbably, through the mouth of Archie Rice. It can be an intolerably knowing voice; it can be a grey, sad ghost of one ...

... Michael Joseph, 13J 6 d), also owes much to its setting. Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley finds her newest corpse on a Spanish-speaking island, sitting among the kingly mummies that help to draw the tourists. And a very skilfully created sun-spot it is, with ...

... first couple of minutes. That is the spirit. We know how many thriller men have begun with a revolver-shot open ing, so to speak, with a bang. This Hell- said -_thc Duchess technique can keep a play in memory just as it can keep a book. Who, hav ing read ...

... Visits to London and even to New York seem incidental, for it is not only Sullivan, the boy who has acted since he could speak, but his friends in the little and great theatres, his family and the background they share that are the memor able things ...

... sympathetic imagination to trace in each of them something of his origins; and few indeed were those Roman poets who never speak with affection or indulgence of their homes. The pull of Rome, at its height, could not but be strong! More than city, centre ...

... Hamilton, 21 s), will be acknowledged as having done its job well. Miss Mitford's new reputation as a biographer will, so to speak, rake them in, and once there they will be carried effortlessly, on the smoothest and happiest of narrative styles, through ...

... and regional feasting, and the result, thanks to Miss Kimbrough's talent, is a pleasant picture of the fascinating French-speaking Arcadian country, where boats ply between the trees on invisible full waters, shrimps are caught and sugar- canes milled ...

... character without his own ring of authenticity, and I can recommend the book to you as a slightly belated New Year's present. Speaking as a strong anti-fantasy partisan, 1 can still say that I greatly enjoyed Mr. Paul Capon's little prank, INTO THE TENTH ...