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... soldier ing in Hong Kong, South Africa, India and the N.W. Frontier. A human, lovable Blimp, Henry Gibbs's hero in Taps, Colonel Roberts (Jarrolds, 9s. 6d.). THERE'S an old warrior, too, in H. E. Bates's 'Colonel Julian and Other Stories (Michael Joseph ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1951
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1691 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

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... generations of juniors. Parading them and other penny blood prodigies in Boys Will Be Boys (Michael Joseph, 10s. 6d.), Mr. E. S. Turner tells us that since 1893 some 200,000,000 words have been turned out by various hands on Sexton Blake stories alone ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2386 | Page: 74 | Tags: Review 

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... BOOKS: Reviewed by e, Arnold Palmer IT is depressing to read a bad book, but it is actively painful to read a good book which you cannot understand. I cannot understand The Greater Trumps, by Charles Williams (Gollancz; 7s. 6d.). I cannot make head or ...

Published: Friday 01 July 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1356 | Page: 86 | Tags: Review 

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... Tropical Birds from S S plates by John Gould, The Romantic Ballet from contemporary prints, both introduced by S Sacheverell Sitwell, and Garden Flowersfrom S c plates by Jane Loudon, introduced by Robert Gathorne-Hardy. j> E Country Books c For mainly industrial ...

Published: Saturday 01 January 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1820 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

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... their due and vast reward. This is easy to read and John K. Winkler has made it human to the last degree. From civilised industry to uncivilised lazi ness, in other words the natives of the Congo, whom W. E. Davis describes with such a wealth of detail in ...

Published: Tuesday 01 July 1941
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1738 | Page: 63 | Tags: Review 

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... and said, You might like it as furniture. Neighbours, such as the Admiral who can never forget that he once commanded the Q.E. and likes Brownies and Bunnies galore in his garden, contribute to the fun of a truly rural frolic. ONE attraction of Vauxhall ...

Published: Sunday 01 April 1956
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1788 | Page: 70 | Tags: Review 

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... older than he really was, but much thought about making money would account for that. Convent days as a novice-- luckily for John, she had second thoughts about that-- round off a warm, ardent story, with quiet humour and beauty, which reminds me of the ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1648 | Page: 82 | Tags: Review 

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... 9s.). A wartime romance. The Trials of the Phideas, by E. Laurie Long (Ward Lock, 8s. 6d.). An adventurous sea story of a little paddle steamer bound for South America. Overture to Life, by John Michael Townend (Rich Cowan, 7s. 6d.). The vivid chronicle ...

Published: Thursday 01 June 1944
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1989 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

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... by Alan Seymour AT last-- at long, long last-- I have been told exactly how to walk downstairs wearing spurs! r o ivrr. i in w mre, aurnor 01 a delicious volume entitled Burke's Steerage (Collins Co., 6s., illustrated also deliciously by the author) the ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1939
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3101 | Page: 86 | Tags: Review 

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... EDITIONS Old Parish Churches, by N. E.. Boyle (Skeffington, 4s. 6d.) Serena Blandish, by Enid Bagnold (Pan, 2s.) English Society in the Middle Ages,' by Doris Mary Stenton (Pelican, 2s. 6d.) The Provincial Lady, by E. M. Dela- field (Pan, 2s.) Summer ...

Published: Tuesday 01 January 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1958 | Page: 62 | Tags: Review 

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... which reflects what we are thinking to-day. IT looks as if the Burma campaign is to provoke more novels than any other, with H. E. Bates leading the literary Chindits. The latest to join the sun-tanned column is Donald C. Eyre whose Foxes Have Holes (Hale ...

Published: Friday 01 April 1949
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1436 | Page: 64 | Tags: Review