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... Shorter Notices of Recently Published Books War Birds, the Diary of an Unknown Young Aviator. (John Hamilton, 15s. net.)-- Imagine Miss Anita Loos in the American Air Force and masculine, writing with her consciously uncon scious revelation of a national psychology; impregnate this masculine Lorelei with Dorothy's vocabulary, set the scene in France during that portion of the War when the ...
... , by Perceval Landon. In two volumes. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. (Constable. 65s. net.; that territory of India which to-day remains an independent kingdom full of antiquities, dowered with wealth from both mine and forest, and peopled from both the Northern and Southern Asiatic civilisations, is graphically portrayed in this magnum opus by a writer who did not live to see its ...
... , bv the Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor, Dr. A. V. Baillie- the Rev. Edmund A. Fellowes Sydney H. Nicholson and Major F. J. Ney. (J. M. Dent and Sons. 7s. 6d. net.) This is a record of the official visit to Canada of the Gentlemen of His Majesty's Free Chapel of St. George in Windsor Castle and the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, which took place from January 29 to March 16, 1927. The work is, ...
... -- The Greatest Journalist of them all A Literary Feast from a Great hotelier Boarding-house Mania and Sanity Jerusalem and £50 By CECIL ROBERTS Everyone is saying, Of course it's very wrong of G. B. S. He shouldn't have done it! But a remark like this, explains exactly why G. B. S. has done it. Seventy years of ferocious originality make indiscretion seem the better part of publicity. So ...
... Books By CECIL ROBERTS An Intellectual Giant; A Champion of Compromise A Kaiser Apologist and a New Love Story THERE is a sense in which the novel is the supreme enemy of good literature. It has seduced untold numbers of excellent writers and turned them aside from their true subject- matter to the more remunerative and acclaimed field of fiction. There is, even to-day, practically only one ...
... James R. Ullman Takes a Rest froi Play 'producing, Makes an Amazonia Journey of the Maximum Discomfor and Returns to Set Down the T a. By VERNON FANE NOT a heartbreak, nor a dangerous illness, nor a spiritual crisis prompted Mr. James Ramsey Ullman to set forth on a voyage down the more uncomfortable reaches of the Upper Amazon, but a few printed sentences from those New York critics who make ...
... The Best Novels of the Week Miss I. Compton Burnett's Story of a Family T. H. White Returns to Form Ffineteenth-Century Italy -By Vernon Fane TO a certain number of people a new novel by Miss I. Compton Burnett is something of an event. The school of her admirers being strictly eclectic, the number may not be very considerable, but there is recent evidence that they are becoming more numerous. ...
... THE GALLIC TOUCH French Authors in Form This Week --By Vernon Fane I HAVE read three detective stories this week, two of them by a Frenchman and one by an American lady, and I must say, with more honesty than chivalry, that the French product is infinitely the better. In fact, since the stories are by M. Georges Simenon it may be said that they are in a class by themselves, and almost hors ...
... The World of Books Four Londoners on a Caribbean Is /and Provide the Theme jor Rose Macaulay s 1 IPou Id be Private Richard Chu rch humiliates the Ti^ide Humanity of Charles Pickens Reviewed By VERNON FANE MISS Rose Macaulay has one of those supreme advantages which can never be coaxed or bullied into existence. She is a wit, as naturally and as spontaneously as she is a born writer. This, we ...
... Reviewed by PHILIP PAGE DU BARRY WAS A LADY.-- Although there is plenty of crudely farcical fun-- quite enjoyable if one is in the mood for it-- in this American musical-comedy at His Majesty's about a cloak-room attendant who, having seen a film about Madame Du Barry, dreams that he is not only at Versailles, back in the eighteenth century, but is Louis XV himself, I found my self not only ...
... NOVELS IN VARYING MOODS -By Vernon Fane Civil Servants and the Blitz Miss Georgette Heyers Literary Diversion A Weighty 7\[ovel by Taylor Caldwell A 7\[ew Story by Barbara Goolden TWO things are certain about the author of DARKNESS FALLS FROM THE AIR (Collins. 8s. 6d.); he knows a great deal about the London blitzes, and he knows a great deal about the activities of temporary Civil Servants. ...
... The World of Books Reviewed by VERNON FANE THE late Arnold Ben nett once said that it was practically impos sible for a poet to write bad prose. the compe tence of modern fiction is apt to pre sent a spectacle too often unrelieved from a dead flatness, and it is there fore a pleasure to open a book by the Poet Laureate and find a full- fledged story-- lit by good writing on every page. EGGS ...