... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...

... Avon) is directed by Glen Byam Shaw. That means it is as sensible a production as we are likely to have. But what of the speaking? Romeo must be heard, and here I cannot say that a visually fine revival succeeds. I don't mean that the artists are inaudible ...

... 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 ...

... often, the Devil has the best tunes; but Miss Leigh, in any event, would command the stage. She looks magnificent, and her speaking is in key. Virtue has hardly a chance against her, though Claire Bloom knows how to die. The other major portrait is Freda ...

... 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 ...

... Having come late to writing, he describes all this just as a man who enjoys living. Only in the last chapter does he, so to speak, join up into the interesting paradox he is the man of action, philosopher and literary stylist. Little craftsmanship has gone ...

... 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, ...