... annals express a triumph of spirit. Endless have been post mortems of that 1956 Grand National: best, let Devon Loch's rider speak the feeling he had: Better to have won and lost, than never to have won at all. Strangely, it has been the fate ol Ouida ...

... was rightly enraged by a Ceylon chauffeur. Other wise, no shadow was cast upon this holiday. A book with a title which can speak for itself is Intimate Letters Of England's Queens (Museum Press, 30s.). The compiler, and annotator, is Margaret Sanders, ...

... things from Mr. Frank Ha ;er's Oxford Playhouse to the Royal Court and now on its way the West End gets as near, humanly speaking, as we are ever kely to get to the uninhibited spirit of the original. Of course, there are reservations to be made. The ...

... the theatre. It would not draw me; but, then, this question of titles is odd. In course of time you get used to a phrase and speak it without thinking. Shakespeare, a popular dramatist, knew that well enough when he offered Twelfth Night; or, What You Will ...

... writing, in letters or even in notes for the daily help, do tend to write like writers, just as, in any cir cumstances, actors speak like actors. Interesting stuff, though, and some sharply-focussed pictures of life as it is lived in southern California. MERMAID ...

... as Faulkner puts it, advances by osmosis or seeping, but Flem remains largely off-stage while three inmates of Jefferson, speaking by turn in chapters, present the respective views of a romantic lawyer, a young boy and a wise guy. Beside a deal of talk ...

... first sentence of all: Foresta Jordan was going to see her father for the first time. And it is Foresta, aged sixteen, who speaks the closing words of the story: I wanted very much to be born. Flow can this be, and what is to happen, we wonder, watching ...

... Virginia McKenna's performance is the best she has ever given. Fler Mrs. Szabo is, as she should be, a perfectly ordinary girl, speaking in the slightly Cockney accents of South London an unremarkable person who, caught up in situations which clearly seem to ...

... better, perhaps, brush up on our French a little for Paris Holiday in whi ...

... serious play to argue about, and acting to admire. The names of Graham Greene (author), John Gielgud, and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies speak clearly. And watch Redmond Phillips as the forlorn priest: he is a splendid artist. Flowering Cherry (Haymarket), also if you ...

... Volume of the History of the English-Speaking Peoples The Record of the First Punjabi Regiment Fact and Fiction in Various Forms THE fourth and last volume of Sir Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples is THE GREAT DEMOCRACIES (Cassell ...

... Naomi Walford's first-rate work. The new May Sarton novel, The Birth Of A Grandfather (Gollancz, 15s.), should, in particular, speak to those of us who are hesitating into our middle years. We start from scratch at each of the different stages of life is ...