... by the way. One of Burrow's Stories. Mr. F. R. Burrow, the referee of the World's Covered Courts Lawn Tennis Championships now being played at Barce lona, and well known to all players-and spectators-through his lone association with the Wimbledon meeting ...

... making of his people,, but in the artificial world he has invented for them they ring true. And this lets Gilbert and Sullivan in. For the characters in their operas, living in an even more artificial world, ring true in just the same way. Joseph Surface ...

... sadness of personal bereavement can have counted more than the loss of home. Take a woman's home away and you cut the ground from beneath her feet. It is her life's work, and without it she is unhappy and unemployed. To the tension of war is added inactivity ...

... Christmas depended so utterly on the individual effort. You can have a real Christmas-hater's season with every excuse in the world; or with a little ingenuity and work you can still make it as thrilling and loving and giving as usual. Forget those accumu ...

... again. Mr. Shaw, intoxicated by the first burgeoning of the applause of the World, went straight home and wrote Arms and the Man or something. GK. Chesterton is dead, and the world is a duller place. There was nothing which that mammoth figure could not ...

... alone seem to be the great levellers bringing the self-elected mighty from what is so often merely their hire- purchased seats. To be sincere, most of the barriers which separate man from man are artificial barriers. Whereas, the only real barrier is the ...

... Palace not in the petrol-free limousines of diplomacy, but at best in a taxi. Or on foot. They are as legion, from World War One and from World War Two. There is a house in London now where you may see the Imperial Eagle of Russia displayed as if the Czar ...

... holidays up 'till 1882. From 1877 to 1882, I always, thanks to St. Ban abas J and Dr. Hornby, got leave for the day from fl Eton to go to Ascot with my parents. From September, 1882, until June, 1883, I was in i 4 Switzerland, and from November, 1883, until ...

... 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 ...