... A Long Poem of the Present War; Michael Graham's Angling Book; Alun Lewis's Character Sketches of Army Life The Story of a Fighter Pilot and the Log of a Merchant Airman A Romantic Novel of Heroic Dimensions; Claude Houghton's Book About a Book --By Vernon Fane A MONTH or two ago I heard the lovely, measured voice of Miss Diana Wynyard reading these lines over the radio: I thought with love, ...

... --By Vernon Fane Victorian Influence in the West Indies An Englishman from Tokyo A Character Study of Raleigh A Fine Record of the Royal A[avy The Batsford Centenary CASHEL, in Mr. James Hope Hennessy's WEST INDIAN SUMMER (Batsford. 12s. 6d.), was aide-de-camp to the Governor of Trinidad in 1939. From the boredoms of official life he turned to a library of books written by eminent visi tors to ...

... The World of Books A Tragic Little Tale of American Provincial Life Cruising Along the Riviera Michael Arlen, as ever, Writes with Wit and Elegance By VERNON FANE THEY have a hard time in American small towns. If it isn't the long cold winters it's the long hot summers. Or the Women's Culture Club. Or the local tittle-tattle. Life seems far from kindly on those little main streets. THE HEATHS ...

... Eugenie The Empress Who Was Nearly Great Octave Autry's Fine Biography of the Courageous Consort of Napoleon III A Woman of Heart and Intellect THE WORLD OF BOOKS Reviewed by VERNON FANE A WISE cynic once said, None think the great unhappy, but the great. It is fairly natural that, observing beings who have all the advantages of birth, riches, beauty, brilliance, and a position of power, one ...

... The Gods of the Modern Gods The Founder of Christianity Treated by Two Modern Writers Nothing is more impressive than an apt quotation or an historical parallel. The very sight of Mr. Shaw's volume brought such a quotation to the tip of my tongue. Unfortunately, it has stayed there. Some giant of the past, whose name I forget (I think it was Macaulay) criticising another author whose name for ...

... The VINTAGE of SIXTY-THREE A Charming Autobiography and Other Literary Matters of the Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS I have to confess that the name Graham Robert son awakened in my mind only the dimmest memories. Was he an actor, an author, an artist, or a society flâneur? I now discover from his book that he has been, in turn, all these, but what really surprises me is that a man with so ...

... in which the Cripples Seek to Avoid the Clumsy Sympathy of the Unwound ed and of the American Illusion Not so very long ago I said here that I read no more books about the War written by Germans; that my soul turned in loathing from the sight of German authors of War masterpieces advancing in close order, not to say mass formation. And when a bookseller told me that, oil his offering one of ...

... THE NEW BIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINCE Major Verney's H.R.H. Bernard Shaw's Tomfooleries --The Sitwells Once Again It is tempting to dismiss H.R.H. as a book which will give pleasure to thousands of loyal subjects, or as a handsome volume profusely illustrated; and, with some such convenient phrase, born ages ago out of a journalist's agony, to pass on to the next. But Major Verney supports his ...

... The PRINCESS of PLESS SPEAKS OUT In the Second Section of her Diary and Other Literary Matters of fhe Week Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS When Daisy, Princess of Pless, published a book all about herself and her extraordinary life, it made a great stir. This was due to what was considered to be her indiscretions and to the wittiness and honesty of the book A member of a brilliant family, daughter ...

... -- Mr. Winslon Churchill and his Thousands Literary Luncheons on Both Sides of the Atlantic An Author's X-ray Eye Diagnosing the Nationalistic Diseases of the World By CECIL ROBERTS A discussion having arisen as to the earnings of authors, I seemed to have startled the circle by stating that I thought Mr. Winston Churchill was probably earning as much with his pen as any man in the British ...

... -- Walk This Way at the Winter Garden The Nelson Touch at the St. Martin's Max and Mr. Max at the Vaudeville: It's a Girl at the Strand By PHILIP PAGE If Miss Gracie Fields were not known to be, of course with justice, as devoid of conceit as it is possible for a big star of the revue and music-hall world to be, I would say that in the case of Walk this Way she had banked too heavily on ...

... : Mr. A. G. Macdonell Traces the Varied Fortunes of Napoleon's Marshals and Reveals Them as an Unprincipled Gang of Thieves and Adventurers Mr. Sinclair Lewis Introduces Us to the Hotel Business Mill Life in the West Riding Provides the Background for Miss Phyllis Bentley's Latest Novel By CECIL ROBERTS There are still new worlds to conquer, even in literature. There have been hun dreds of ...