... (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 ...

... Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He became New York's favourite figure abused, caricatured, burlesqued and loved. This, roughly speaking, is his career story set to music and enthusiastically if inappropriately played and sung by actors who, in the many moments ...

... trating power and such magical sympathy with the subject that it not only moves, even excites the reader, but prompts him to speak its praises wherever he goes. This I propose to do about M. Jean Renoir's wonderful book, RENOIR. MY FATHER (Collins. 36s.) ...

... important biographies There is a certain suitability that one of the most successful journalists to present India to the English-speaking world over the last decade has been a woman. In spite of the mob violence and the fierce communal passions, there is a certain ...

... source of inspira tion, and it will speak to you in its own language, the language of sculpture. What it says to each individual will vary and may have little resemblance to what he wants it to say, but it will speak with force to all but the mentally ...

... and visibly dyspeptic, he swallows his pills and shoots his questions without the turning of a single smooth hair. He also speaks the best line of the play when, in answer to an understandably anxious query about the object of his inquiries, he says: Oh ...

... incest) but blood is blood and race is race and so to save the royal face she has Lot thrown into the dungeons. Here the Lord speaks to him through two angels, miraculously releases him from his confinement and bids him rally the Hebrews and lead them out ...

... note. This, for some not very good reason, made me think of the young man in One Way Pendulum who was training a choir of I-speak-your-weight machines to sing the Hallelujah Chorus, and I had an almost irresistible desire to rush round the galleries making ...

... indeed, is a word which has other and less charming connotations there, just as, in a very different context, an Englishman may speak of a man's being a politician as a mere statement of fact whereas an American will use the same word as a mild but definite ...

... ry novel in Cuba, and Afro-Cubanism. One realises on reading this book how late in literary development were the English-speaking West Indies. This has been made up for lately, but Mr. Coulthard's consideration of the works of men like Selvon and Lamming ...

... unromantic story about present-day South Africa. This has neverthe less been achieved by Miss June Drummond, whose A TIME TO SPEAK (Gollancz. 18s.) is as detached a piece of work as one could reasonably expect from a writer who has her- lf been involved ...

... an audience grate ful for a genuine singer's voice in a cast which, for the most part, is doing a Pro fessor Higgins and speaking the lyrics against a musical background. Relent lessly plugged as this song is, it is still not so much a hit as a near miss ...