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Wisdom from the Past

... drawings of sitters whose work has stirred Sir William's admiration, and who range from Viscount Allenby to Cecil Day-Lews, from Sir John Reith to Sir Rabindranath Tagore, and from Sir Austen Chamberlain to David Low. The drawings are accom panied by pen-portraits ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1243 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

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Published: Wednesday 01 December 1937
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1545 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

Of Cabbages and Kings

... is of generous proportions and amply illustrated, may evoke nostalgic pangs from members of the Duke's own generation, and occasionally, perhaps, some supercilious smiles from the 1937 crowd. Mr. Neal Harman's novel, Rebellion (Arthur Barker 7s. 6d.), ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1191 | Page: 27 | Tags: Review 

ALAN PARSONS' SCRAP BOOK YIELDS TREASURE TROVE: Quotations and Extracts from Many Sources that Make Delightful ..

... Tree, who tells that their scrapbooks and sheets of music are bound in the same vivid and heartening colour. During his lifetime Mr. Alan Parsons was a devotee to the art, for with its devotees it is nothing less, of the scrapbook. He would sit at a long ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1866 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Bystander Bookshelf: Unconscious Autobiography

... in the Civil Service his spare time he devoted to the compilation of a scrap-book con taining passages of literature of which he was particularly fond, press cuttings, extracts from letters and the like. A selection of these cuttings now appear in this ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1938
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1244 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

THE BOOK PUBLIC IS READING MORE--AND BUYING MORE

... imaginary tale. Professional craftsmen of all sorts, from foreign correspondents to successful dramatists, from best-selling novelists to society ladies, have been moved to record their experiences from the cradle onwards. A review of the past year will ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2767 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE STAGE

... value of good period decoration (with song and dance) in a play like this. Here is a Victorian and Edwardian Scrapbook, with lusty echoes from the music-halls, and with lady pioneers of cycling rationally bloomered, with a vintage motor-car and a host ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1053 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... natural and undramatic beginning, the gradual heightening of suspense as the plot proceeds from the comic to the bizarre, and from the bizarre to the sinister, and from thence to the fatal these are handled with an unemphatic restraint as refreshing as it ...

Published: Wednesday 16 November 1938
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2205 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS

... what he calls this glamour world. He has known intimately most of the top-liners from Bessie Bellwood, Marie Lloyd and Little Tich to the Crazy Gang. The Spice of Life (Hurst Blackett, 10s. 6d.) is his entertaining scrapbook of memories at seventy-five; ...

Published: Thursday 01 February 1940
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3250 | Page: 83 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... never took their clothes off. But, from beginning to end, with few exceptions, this crowd of refugees behaved with coolness and courage. Social distinctions soon went by the board. Our common dirt did that. _ From the artistic stand- evise point, Mr ...

Published: Wednesday 08 April 1942
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1737 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

FICTION AND FACT PERFECTLY BLENDED: PLEASE SALVAGE ALL WASTE PAPER

... A Sudan Scrap-book A Librarian's Holidays at Home; The Shipwrecked Naturalist; Science for the Million WHEN a coloured girl called Augusta idly boasts at a party that she is an artist, and then sets out to prove it to Harlem and the world in general ...

Published: Saturday 22 August 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1791 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A MISCELLANY OF NEW BOOKS

... over the world, and that they want the same things. They want to live in their own countries in their own way and have something to say about the way they are governed. They want to stop having to go to war every twenty years and if in the world we live ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1944
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1883 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review