... Square. And though I am still no nearer learning his secret it is satisfying to have, at last, met him in the paint, so to speak. Meditation by the sea is the work of that ubiquitous artist Anonymous, an artist who, judging by the size of the part he ...

... Joan. Mr. rian's inquisitor is really a sort of tench Stogumber who does not coi off as a joke, but the Prince Henri d Conde speaks for the French i bility, as Warwick spoke for the nglish barons, and is splendidly pi ed by Mr. Derek Godfrey. VERDICTS john ...

... joking about his own affliction in his Portrait of the painter as a deaf man (No. 30) is saying sharply, Eh? What d'you say? Speak up, man. And in his last self-portrait, The artist in old age (No. 31) he is asking, Good heavens, is that really me?. Then ...

... so on. The dialogue has the waspish, lethal economy of Miss Comp- ton-Burnett's, and like that lady's, too, one character speaks very much like another. I much enjoyed this novel for its cool compassion and its evident enormous good sense; it is also ...

... presume that no one but ourselves is capable of making deductions from facts? It's the best, gentlest, and wittiest way of speaking up for her own method, and typical of an historian who writes with such grace, imaginative sympathy and passionate enthusiasm ...

... Searching melody in a minor key SPEAKING AS ONE OF THOSE FAST vanishing woolly mammoths who well recall the 30's, Mr. Cecil Day Lewis (once part of that astonishing composite word Auden-Spender- Day Lewis-MacNeice) is for me for ever associated with my ...

... (Oxford University Press. 10s.), by Charles Singer; and Volumes 3 and 4 of Sir Winston Churchill's A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES (Cassell. 10s. 6d. each). Richard Edmonds ...

... is as aloof from the boy as if he were absent and there is a frightening lack of communication between them. When the boy speaks or even asks a direct question there is no response and the father continues his own train of thought, constantly brood ing ...

... state. When 32-year-old Marion Wilson says: It is working hard that makes me feel happier than anything else,' she evidently speaks the truth. Most widely known for her greeting card designs for the Gordon Frase: Gallery, she also does graphic design work ...

... during an tar and a 1 If I spent there a (ew days ago shared the place with no mo than ten other people, not ne of whom was speaking English (unless you count American as English). Taking a private poll after wards I was amazed to find how few people, even ...

... properly dramatized. They are too often left to a small side-chorus of washerwomen when they might be left more advantageously to speak for themselves in action. But the spirit that informs the whole thing is irresistible and the constant applause it elicits ...

... the Spanish Ambassador described this artist as one of the best (he may even have said greatest) in Spain it is my duty to speak up and contradict him. Durancamps is at best a sort of third-rate Frank Brangwyn, at worst a painter of the kind of furnishing ...