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... of three successful meetings in the year. The first Liverpool Spring Cup was won in 1828 by Mr. Johnston's Jupiter, who also annexed the Summer Cup in the same year, but the Autumn Cup was not established until 1856, when it was won by Mr. Heyward's Maid ...
... beyond our ken that we should join in making this backward glance to Dickensian England to which Ivor Brown so engagingly invites us. Sir Arthur Bryant's Story of England now moves majestically on to its second volume, the high Middle Age, the century ...
... return to England's green and pleasant land with so voluble and delightful an enthusiast as Mr. S. P. B. Mais. ENGLAND'S PLEASANCE (Hutchinson. 7s. 6d.) is one of that kind of book which strikes a chord of recollection and pleasure in all of us. Some of ...
... THE WORLD OF BOOKS Reviewed by VERNON FANE A Grim Picture of Life in a Seaport in Mr. James Hanleys Latest Novel Men Never Know Frauiein Vicki Baums Convincing and Moving Love Storu BOTH in size and scope say the publishers of Mr. James Hanley's THE ...
... THE WORLD OF BOOKS Airs. Aslor's Horse Reveals Some of the More Ebullient Extravagances of (fie American Scene A. F. Tschilfely Leaves the Wild Tracks of the Andes for the Bridle-paths of England Reviewed, by VERNON FANE MR. Stanley Walker is a distinguished ...
... hearty among satirists is Mr. A. G. Macdonell. Readers will remember with wnat gusto ne aistriDutea nis thwackings in England Their England. In HOW LIKE AN ANGEL (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) he distributes them over a larger area, and his antics at the ex pense of ...
... The World of Books Reviewed by VERNON FANE MUDDLING through is supposed to be a peculiarly English trait, and it is sometimes a matter for astonishment to the lesser breeds without the law to find that we take pride in it. The Empire, the great Lord Durham ...
... The World of Books i. Wilson Wright Reveals the Kindly Side of Napoleon's Nature in The Pinnacle of Glory The Memoirs of Count Apponyi A Statesman Who Awed the Delegates to the League of Nations Reviewed by VERNON FANE THE town of New Valois, in the State ...
... he has given us some amusing side lights on Dickens' character which one can interpret as one chooses. I particularly liked a quotation from one of his American letters There is a line in my chin, indelibly fixed there by the New-Englander I told you of ...
... The World of the Film A New Bystander Feature British Pictures Make Good. A Talkie Tarzan Another Sunshine Susie. Noel Coward's Original Film Story. By Wilfred James SUCH is the increasing popu larity of the British talkie with British audiences that ...
... Strange Worlds By Alan Thomas THERE have been many speculations on the shape of things to come: but few, I think, have led us into such strange paths as Mr. Andrew Marvell with his Minimum Man (Gol lancz; 8s. 6d.). This is a sociological thriller, and ...
... The WORLD of BOOKS: The Story of Pitcairn Island /4 New and Exciting Novel by John 8ucfi an George Bushnell's Painstaking and Interesting Bio graphy of Sir Richard Grenville Reviewed by VERNON FANE DR. Shapiro went to Pitcairn Island for pur poses of ...