... 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 ...

... have hung up my harp for my songs are all sung. He had indeed lost that magnificent voice three years earlier and even for speaking had only a hoarse whisper left. But before that he had had a career of fantastic success, had made a big fortune and spent ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... choices of word: sanguine, for instance, hasn't the same meaning as sanguinary, and British Am bassadors are unlikely to speak of being given jolly old what-for, but these must be very minor slips in a book of these dimensions and, I would say, sincerity ...

... for a few hours in a tent taken for the purpose. Their second and last kip was near Penrith. Their account of the journey speaks of glimpsing the cold glittering sea at mid night at Charmouth in Dorset; of the prison lights at Princetown appearing through ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...