... Crocodile Bradley's secretary. The plot derives from a feud from the '45 days. In spite of one or two inconsistencies, My Father Sleeps is one of Miss Mitchell's best. The Countryside Malcolm Saville's Country Scrapbook for Boys and Girls (National Magazine Company ...

... put over on the American public in lots of plays over lots of years. I never saw this actress, but seem to remember gathering from those who did that she was a ranting, roaring, splurgy and generally highly efficient exponent of those society melodramas ...

... authors had not escaped to Europe from the environment of their adolescence. There's a passion for beauty in them. A whole new world created. I thought that they were writing of what was about them. They were getting away from it. It's a great joke. I would ...

... fact, there may have been a tendency to play down feeling. (This may come from self- protectiveness, from fear of inadequacy, from unconsciously pathetic youthful cynicism or from sheer British shyness.) While this caution on the subject of feeling cannot ...

... {Continued on page 628 From the Editor This is. as Elizabeth Bowen explains on the adjoining page the last article she will write for us on books. Readers will I know wish me to say on their behalf how very sorry they are at her departure from these pages. I ...

... Jersey Act. This enactment laid it down that no further, or existing, American strains, which could not trace untainted descent from the original mares in the Stud Book, could be considered thorough bred, and it followed, therefore, that they must have the ...

... intellectual rectory \yas not rare. From such homes, with their dignity and their happiness, how many distinguished English men and women have come There were, equally, hard scenes, hard living and hard fates. But from bleak Haworth the Bronte genius sprang ...

... alone an Aintree one, had them all stretched for dead two fences from home, the acting honours of the piece, I think, must go to gallant little Lough Conn. He cut out the work almost from the start, and he was well clear after crossing Becher's, over which ...

... stand from them while this remains true, we are not yet shutting up shop. From my rather close research through Take it to Bed, I infer Mr. Wyndham Lewis has received only two letters of protest one as to the frigidity of County cricketers (from the brother ...

... and thirty turns dug up for our interest and entertainment from Heaven knows where is an amazing mixture. Some of them, we read, are discovered by searching through the columns of newspapers, from the offers which have been sent into the B.B.C. offices through ...

... protest from any family whose members have been mentioned. And yet it is quietly interesting and readable from beginning to end. A more kindly, generous volume of memoirs has surely never been compiled. There isn't a really harsh word in the book from beginning ...

... help him on his eventual journey to Nirvana or Jehannum, whichever place it was for which he was pointing. Nowthese monkeys from'Jakko used to steal anything, and as in India you always leave all your doors and windows open, the monkey burglar never had ...