... : f Reviewed by I 'Trevor Allen I HOW I envy those detached people who can retire with a hefty novel, not only reading every line in a leisurely way, but living in the story and not worrying if it takes a month to finish. Mr. Frank Tilsley's Champion Road (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d.) tells in 700 packed pages of Jonathan Briggs, tough Lanca shire builder, who gets ahead by Jerry and ...

... The Woman in the Book By James Milne ONE, finds, looking round this. winter's book market, a particular number to which women give interest, distinction, and sometimes drama. My only looks, said a famous English poet, were women's looks, Now he would have the women in the books, either writing them or filling them with chron icles, fallible and infallible, of themselves. Seek the woman, ...

... Reviewed by Noel Thompson JUDGING by the sales of The Thin Blue Line there must be many thousands of people who will want to know what happened to its heroes, Tommy Halton, Henry Ireland, Paddy Tallard, Jock Riddell, Ginger Pleasanton, Kit Crockart and Hugh Claverley. In The Avengers (Hutchinson, 7s. 6d.) Charles Graves satisfies that wish by giving the adventures of the heroes after he ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor Allen DURING these crisis years we have been served remarkably well by roving correspondents on the Trouble Fronts. Negley Farson, Vincent Sheean, John Gunther, Douglas Reed, Philip Jordan, Pierre van Paasen have given us the first-hand reactions of reasoning minds to movements of violent unreason in a world turned topsy-turvy. Mr. Ferdinand Tuohy lines up with that ...

... : Reviewed by Trevor oj{llen DAVID the Shepherd-King wherever -- now he plucks his harp -- should be flattered to find that, more than 3,000 years after his passing, a distinguished general who served on Allenby's staff does him the honour of plotting his campaigns, mapping his battles, and comparing him with Hannibal Frederick the Great and Napoleon. David (Skeffington, 12s. 6d.) by Gen. Sir ...

... Reviewed by Trevor z. Allen WILDE wit was no Oscar monopoly. Brother Willie shared it; so did their mother, Lady Wilde. When Oscar accepted the editorship of the Woman's World she told him: We all have to begin in a small way; and six guineas a week will at least keep you in carnations and cab fares. Hearing that novelist Lady Florence Dixie had called one of her heroines Speranza she said ...

... S THAT is the slogan of the Ga/elord Hauser gospel which was first popular with Hollywood stars. It recommends, especially for the over-forties, a daily diet including brewers' yeast, yoghourt S (or milk or buttermilk) fortified with powdered skim milk, wheat s J( germ and black treacle; cafe au lait or, better still, two teaspoons z S of treacle in a half-cup of hot water with milk added. ...

... Reviewed by Arnold Palmer MIDDLE-AGED and late middle-aged readers will always, I suppose, regard Mr. Compton Mackenzie as peculiarly their own. During the second decade of the century, they were the young generation, and Mr. Mackenzie was their champion and apologist. With Carnival, Sylvia Scarlett, and the two volumes of Sinister Street, he did for his contemporaries what Mr. Michael Arlen ...

... They're Off by Riff and Raff (Hutchinson, 5s.) A Guide to the Classics, by Guy Griffith and Michael Oakeshott (Faber Faber, 3s. 6d.) riPHESE two books both deal with flat-racing, and so are particularly topical this month. (If there are any readers who do not know why they are topical, let them read no further.) Messrs. Riff and Raff approach the subject humorously and, what is far more ...

... by Bill Adams (Peter Davies and Lovat Dickson, 8s. 6d.) UNTIL six years ago I had never heard of Bill Adams. Then Messrs. Harrap added a volume containing seven of his tales to their excellent little series, Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday, and I recognised, after reading it, that there were even more gaps in my knowledge of contemporary writers than I had supposed. With the ...

... : by A. LI. Matthison (Heath Cranton, 7s. 6d.) THIS volume, a sequel to an autobiography called Art, Paint and Vanitv which attracted some attention on its appearance two and a half years ago, is the work of a Birmingham paint manu facturer with theatrical in terests. Like the first instal ment, the book pleases the reader by introducing him to a human, humorous, modest man, who has lived a ...

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