... The intensely observed portraits, the dazzling, luminous still-lifes, the solemn, speculative and dignified children, all speak of the introspective, brooding and tenderly ruthless eye that looked at them so searcliingly and with juliet mcleod, the horse ...

... and England or, specifically, Maine and Suffolk, both rural communities and both focuses of quiet and united family lives. Speaking of which, one of the considerable values of a book like this is to remind us all or to demonstrate for the first time how ...

... 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 ...

... fairies are cast as small boys; the timbre of their voices is part of the haunting world of Oberon and Tytania. Puck is a speaking part, played by a boy acrobat, Nicolas Chagrin. This originality of treatment extends to the lovers, who are seen as a group ...

... reminis cence of a festival of the seasons in ancient Tokyo, one or two cere monial festivities there is little else left to speak for the No or the Kabuki drama. In the place of these bygone indigenous entertainments there is offered the kind of exoticism ...

... slator, faced with no mean task, seems to me now and again to have abandoned hope, as in sentences like this (the narrator is speaking about why he is writing the book): I must look for the reasons, find out by what devious ways, what hardly perceptible movements ...

... convicted embezzler, remains year after year immured in the same house with the wife he has dis graced and who will not see him or speak to him. Ibsen contrived for the tomb-like drawing-room in which the twin sisters sit exchang ing barbed memories of the past ...

... subjects; The Martyr of Science, when the world of politics was opened to her; The Socialist Labour Agitator, a phrase which speaks for itself and which was placed in the 1880's, and The Chela of the Mahatmas, marking her first months in her sensational ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... point of Moomin and feel it all some obscure Finnish jest. I, ...

... has a young brother who because he lisps will hardly be bothered to speak at all. But the excitement of owning a trombone gives the lad an interest in life. He not only begins to speak but to sing, and Mr. Denis Waterman sings Gary, Indiana most takingly ...