... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... is within the domestic saga frame and the per sonages invite belief. Only their force of will, or what the author calls (speaking somewhat ironically of a cat) their single-minded iron megalomania is as alarming to the reader as it is uncomfortable. Scarcely ...

... Dubrovnik to give the story an odd, spicy flavour. Apart from that, the setting is as real as the plot is incredible and I speak as one who respects the improbable and knows that it is very far from the impossible. Nevertheless, and just because of the ...

... respectful. Some were as downright abusive as others were adulatory. We start with Ajaccio and the nine-year-old non-French- speaking Corsican shipped off to Brienne to the Royal Military School, where one of his closest observers was the shrewd Bourrienne ...

... more or less the same language. Now, he continued, there is a babel, and often those who are best worth listening to are speaking quietly and using unfamiliar words, and in a large mixed exhibition they are almost inaudible. Sir Charles Wheeler said ...

... about theevent, the little ship's return to port, and the consequent world wide sensation. A foreword by Miss Pearl S. Buck speaks of the account as having the size and power of Greek tragedy, and so it might be if the Greeks, instead of the Americans, ...

... past thirty- eight years. Although it would be difficult to imagine a subject of greater complexity and I am naturally not speaking of the technical side Dr. Jungk has achieved something quite extraordinary in that his book, which is necessarily long, is ...

... left such a quantity of personal papers, it is greatly to the biographer's credit that she has allowed these more or less to speak for them selves, and the book is based on the diaries and on the constant, deeply affectionate letters which Gertrude Bell ...

... Edward Hyams and Mazo de la Roche THE techniques of writing for book publication and writing material which you will later speak over the air are so different from each other that they require a whole separate set of rules and of styles. It is only seldom ...

... Sutherland, who says that, apart from his Christi he is a very happy man. He has written an amu!' novel on the subject, roughly speaking, of armysJ8 The three main personages in his little tale are T Welshman, of all things; Alfie, an enormous oaf a Norwegian ...

... she wrote I dislike everything Paul Robeson is now saying I still believe, however, that if he wants to give a concert, or speak his mind in public, no one should prevent him from doing so. PAUL ROBESON (Dobson. 21s.) is Miss Seton's more formal biography ...