... he could and then when he had reached middle age, decided to live among the Italians, who have given up such illusions. SPEAKING THE LANGUAGE LIKE A NATIVE (Hamish Hamilton. 21s.) is the book which is one of the results of Mr. Menen's long Italian stay ...

... in im moderate terms against those who stopped the Minister in his tracks. They are content to let the rather dreary facts speak for themselves. The last has certainly not been heard of Mr McDermott, a man of talent by many people's reckoning and probably ...

... tax produced the larger surplus for distribution to shareholders) but Mr. W. Longman gave an optimistic view of prospects, speaking towards the end of 1962. Ranking larger than Longmans in terms of assets but recently showing smaller profits is the Gla ...

... plans to leave for Perth in the autumn of this year Chief Kola Balogun, the Chairman of the Nigeria National Shipping Line, speaks at a luncheon in Newcastle-upon-Tyne after the launch from the Walker yard of Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson of the M/V ...

... savage exploitation. At tbf time, Leopold raised the emotional temperat of his contemporaries to such a degree that one could speak of him, lot alone writo about 1 with any sense of objectivity. Mr Aschorsonslio how the King sought, with the millions wresW ...

... outlines of our history to emerge sharp and clear. Bringing together in a single volume bio graphies of the poets of the English-speaking world, and assessments of their individual works, has been a vast and worthwhile labour for Stephen Spender and Donald Hall ...

... determined to teach the mob a sharp lesson, but some who knew him say he was no murderer, not even a thruster, just n quiet- speaking little man held by all who know him in the greatest respect. Perhaps because over zealous Anglo-Indians decided to mako him ...

... wonderful sense of proportion. THE STRUGGLE OF THE MODERN (Hamish Hamilton. 25s.) by Mr. Stephen Spender is, very broadly speaking, a work of literary criticism and, more than that, an attempt to reassert the relationship of litera ture to modern life ...

... lished Works: Chapman and Hall, 25s., has been edited by Mi'. Jocelyn Brooke, who also contributes an introduction in which he speaks of this young writer (Welch died in 1948 at the age of 33) as a true original his every utterance has an air of being entirely ...

... talent to telling the story of some more remote forbears, the Bussons, and has chosen to give the saga the form of a novel. Speaking as an addict of unadorned, and preferably unromanticised, biographies, I could wish that Miss du Maurier's new book were ...

... light hand with dialogue which crack! s and jj fizzes along and a pleasant taste in simii :s, as 5 when he describes a man speaking in a te.-hno- 5 crat accent compounded of Lancashire, Brixton and Marlon Brando. To say that he i out- I spoken is rather ...

... work I adore, I ought to add like whom I wish I could write. Mr Miller's appreciation will be echoed by many of us; when he speaks of the author's long and loving descriptions of nature; when he mentions his full, robust humour, clean and healthy, and ...