... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... prefer the company of mur derers. I would rather see a murder cleverly planned than a murder patiently recon structed and Speaking Of Murder at the St. Martin's Theatre is a first-rate example of the thriller which shows us the ingenuities of a murderer's ...

... inspira tion is missing. Some of us will remember from Redgrave's performance certain scenes rather than the whole man. He speaks compellingly, and in a fierce whisper, the lines, Now might I do it pat, behind the praying King; I think, also, of the talk ...

... 25th book, Close Quarters (Hamish Hamilton, 15s.), which is about dear Barsetshire and how the lower orders and foreigners speak funny and how kind Mrs. Parkinson won a washing- machine in the Bring and Buy raffle, all enlivened with jokes and not too ...