... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Lange's aid. He sees her through her mis carriage and, when she is subsequently put on trial for murdering Mr. Kennedy, he speaks stoutly in her defence. Soundly trounced in court by Mr. Nolan, the citizens of Peyton Place meekly accept the blame for the ...

... 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 ...

... in the friendliest possible manner in the foothills. I love this unsoulful, perceptive, very human book, because Mr. Morris speaks to non-heroes and makes them understand what the Everest expedition was like. Anyone who shares my obsessive passion for letters ...

... 16-year-old son, Air. Jim Mitchum, who looks remarkably like him and acts in precisely the same laconic, dead-pan style. Speaking personally, one Mr. Alitchum at a time is enough, thank you. In this film, based on a story by Mr. Robert Alitchum, Air. ...

... pleasure- loving city of Aix-en-Provence in the empire of Napoleon III, has all the cruelty of the un commonly good. She will speak to no person she considers morally unworthy, and she pro fesses the uncomfortable gift of being able tq see nasty crawly things ...

... scene of the play lie lleetinglv reassures the boy who has come the expected cropper in the examination room, but, generally speaking, it is not through anything that happens in the play to the chronic drunk but simply through what he is that we get the feeling ...