... own prosaic pre occupations quite mad. The son is trying to train a set of weighing machines of the kind which an nounce: I speak your weight into the embryo of a Bach Choir. He is getting on well with his ambitious work except that one recalcitrant machine ...

... thing is going to happen in the world of jazz? The mass of small clubs which now feature jazz as their musical enter tainment speak for the home following; the stream of trans atlantic visitors confirms, in part, the public's willingness to patronize concerts ...

... doubt. We must agree with Mr. Ashe that such a period cannot be written off as mere transition. If that were so, we could speak of Britain's entire development since William of Orange as a transi tion from the Stuart Monarchy to the Welfare State. It ...

... 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 ...

... drunk to her bed and but gradually she becomes aware that, so far as physical love goes, the Broadway rake is, emotionally speaking, dead. He hates those who share his need for it. To him the Titaness is a figure of great beauty because she is, he divines ...

... for the sixteen years and who knows the Washington seen down and inside out. He has written the story of a between, roughly speaking, the President and the Si and he has written it unforgettably. They say Mr. Drury has been known as the quietest g. Washington ...

... hands to murder. The specimens with which they thenceforth supply Dr. Robert Knox (the distinguished Mr. Cushing) are, so to speak, home- killed. The doctor, solely concerned with the advancement of medical science, asks no questions but eventually other ...

... a by-product, pro duces what John Masefield has called a little prose epic. Mr. Abraham, an Irishman if ever I heard one speak, is one of London's most distinguished surgeons and advisers. The extra-wonderful thing is that he can write, too. Cockneys ...

... Shakespeare through the ■wringer in the Mermaid's modern-dress version of King Henry V. As the King William Peacock (left) speaks to Monljoy the French herald (Anton DilTring). Right: Before Harfleur with rifles instead of longbows THEATRE VERDICTS of ...

... vocabulary and spelling of the time. (Only Regency specialists do this nowadays, the new trick being to have all charac ters speak, and indeed think, uncommon 20th-century.) Everybody who was anybody in literary society crops up through these pages Suckling ...

... nineteenth century. For this, Mr. Kalb was lucky enough to land the job of press attache at the American Embassy in Moscow. He speaks, reads and thoroughly understands the Russian language, Here are his findings during those months of work and widespread travel ...

... Mr. Barber is able to tell the story with a due regard for its tremendous drama. For the most part he has left the facts to speak for themselves. But, in conclusion, he has made some forthright comments on Pandit Nehru and on the Asian brand of Communism ...