... 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 ...

... and accurately to life than her appealing phonetic Cockney spelling. The Life and Letters of Emma Hamilton lets the letters speak for her. When she scribbled at the bottom of a letter from Naples, Sir Was wrote you a few lines, the dear, untidy, generous ...

... already proved scores of times is beginning to become the wee-est bit of a bore. In The Wrong Arm of the Law he's at it igain speaking slightly fractured upper- class English as M. Jules, the Mayfair couturier, and coarsish Cockney as Pearly Cates, the backroom ...

... 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 ...