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Two Men in Black Hats: THE RETURN OF DON CAMILLO

... spring holiday afternoon. THE FAR COUNTRY (Odeon, Leicester Square Westerns, whether they take place in Texas or Alaska, are probably the most reliable and consistently well-made of all Hollywood films and The Far Country, although just short of classic ...

Published: Wednesday 11 August 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1278 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

POT HOLES

... swamped. It is only for the moment and the young man who failed in his Edinburgh examinations and went to eat husks in a far country soon reasserts himself. Pot Holes does not read as if a woman had written it, which Miss Eliza beth Charlotte Webster may ...

Published: Wednesday 06 June 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 98 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS IN BRIEF

... regards his earlier book merely as a piece of entertainment compared with this vast collection of scientific evidence. THE FAR COUNTRY. By Neville Shute. Heinemann 12s. 6 d.) A sentimental story of England and Aus- tralia ornamented with pieces of descriptive ...

Published: Wednesday 10 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A LITERARY LETTER: Aunt Sarah and the War

... United States just now is A Far Country, by Winston Churchill. Not, of course, our Winston, but an American writer who has already achieved very considerable success by a series of clever novels. Mr. Churchill has in A Far Country given us a problem novel ...

Published: Saturday 31 July 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2203 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

The Serjeant Doffs His Wig

... revolution in its train. Put a D in front of evolution and you have this author's theme. The personal love for this far country which to conceal or con fuse its identity is said to be in South America, and his own personal romance of loyalty to the ...

Published: Wednesday 16 April 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1265 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

Crisis In The Bush

... hesitation. Is life too rough, society too narrow, culture too far to seek? Mr. Nevil Shute has no such doubts. In The Far Country (Heinemann, 12s. 6d.), Australia, with a few reservations, is glorified. The plot, however, is curious. When he wrote Round ...

Published: Wednesday 13 August 1952
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1271 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

Indelible Stamp

... 1926 include 44 No Highway which also became a highly successful film 44 A Toicn Like Alice Round the Bend and 44 The Far Country Brigid Brophy recently had her first book, 44 The Crown Princess, a collection of short stories, published by Collins. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 May 1953
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1378 | Page: 57 | Tags: Review 

A NEW NOVEL FROM NEVIL SHUTE: An Entrancing Tale of the New Australians by a Master of Story-telling

... liable to con fuse the word emigration with the word immigration should be advised to read Mr. Nevil Shute's new novel, THE FAR COUNTRY (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.), in which the difference and the distinction is made implicitly and very clearly, and in a manner ...

Published: Saturday 20 September 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1780 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... periods. The publishers suggest very neatly and aptly that The Wayward Man is tlie story of another prodigal son. There is a far country, some rather shabby and half-hearted riotous living, a great many husks, a return, a fatted calf, a lightly incensed elder ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1927
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1893 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

MODERN LIFE IN BOOKS

... periods. The publishers suggest very neatly and aptly that The Wayward Man is tlie story of another prodigal son. There is a far country, some rather shabby and half-hearted riotous living, a great many husks, a return, a fatted calf, a lightly incensed elder ...

Published: Saturday 19 November 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1893 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

FOLLY THEATRE

... profession have to suffer through no fault of their own none is worse than when an unprincipled manager takes a company into a far country and leaves them behind without the means of returning home. A Melbourne correspondent writes us that Miss Soldene and her ...

THE LIBRARY: Lord Cromer's Modern Egypt

... surprise and horror, he then reveals that he had no intentions, but is already married. The girl has to take refuge in the far country with two prim aunts. While there, she falls in love with another man, and all would have been well but for the fact that ...

Published: Wednesday 11 March 1908
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2038 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review