... yellow fluid which, since sprat diet, smells just like sardine oil before, it had a sickly-sweet smell, a bit like a flower. Speaking on behalf of all those who are scared to death by the mere idea of a bird in the room, I admire this bold, controlled, scientific ...

... paper-backs, with pride of place going perhaps to the first two volumes of Sir Winston Churchill's HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLE. Both are published by Cassell at 10s. net. Volume I, The Birth of Britain, takes us to the end of the reign of Richard ...