... . Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage for 1939 is now on sale, at the usual price of 105s. net. This im pressive work, famous for the extent and the accuracy of the information it provides on the subject of the noble families of England and their collateral descendants, has a wider circle of readers than would be generally supposed. In the preface, the Editor, Mr. C. F. ...

... LOOKING at the new Disney cartoon, Fun and Fancy Free (New Gallery), I felt tempted to adapt Browning:-- What 's become of Disney Since he gave us all the slip? This is not the Disney of Snow White and Pinocchio, of Bambi and Fantasia. This is a rather slapdash double, who has kept on turning up lately in exchange for the old Walt the faulty operator who perpetrated Victory Through Air ...

... Revolutions are Circular n fable Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. DLOOD is cheap. Nearly everybody has plenty of it. Thus, it is the lubricant of revolution. In Oberonia the machinery of revolution had worked well. Oberonia was now the Federation of Pluto-Communist State-holdings. But the F.P.C.S. still lacked one thing, a President. A supreme Commoner. Ottakar, the Principal ...

... Harvey Nichols Co., Ltd Harvey Nichols Co., Ltd., miss, so write now, to Yo U'LL find de scriptions of this organdie Ascot frock, the Agnes model hat, and the satin lined gloves, just inside the cover of Fashions. The season's number of Fashions Harvey Nichols' famous new magazine has just been published, and you're advised to write as soon as you can for your free copy You'll enjoy the ...

... yfvfef By TOBY O'BRIEN WE shall have heard by now a great deal about the centenary of the Boat Race. The result is, of course, wrapt in mystery as yet, but should Cambridge win again, we shall no doubt be told that the fact that eight young mastodons from the remoter colonies have rowed faster than a similar set from Oxford is proof (if proof were needed) of the decadence of the older ...

... IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE Not necessarily a Doctor of Medicine, but one skilled in drawing, with a Degree in Humour. If so, we want his prescription for a full-page chuckle to appear in each issue of The Sketch. In the past Dr. Studdy did it with his Bonzo, and Drs. Lawson Wood and Frank Reynolds with Gran'pop and the Bristle woods. There MUST be a new Doctor who can match these famous ...

... r AT present I am, and surprisingly, twins. On the right, Peter, aged fifteen; on the left, Wendy, some minutes younger. They are back for Christmas, and the theatre guide waves like a banner. The town is theirs to sack. What must they see? Peter, as a rule, speaks for both-- with some minor interruption. They want a pantomime or two, of course and not merely for sentimental reasons. Your ...

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... DANCING DAYS .,-%5AND#- NIGHTS ^f7sT J'' -H£ By PHYLLIS MONKMAN. THE Albert Hall, that tremendous building Kensington way, is surely enjoying the season of its life. What with concerts, meetings, and balls, the huge hall will have accommodated millions of pleasure-seekers before the end of July. Which is as it should be. The Venice Ball, one of the most picturesque functions that ever ...

... PHRYNE T TE'.5**LE T T Eft FROM LONDON A DRY ROT, AND OTHER NONSENSE. BY MARTHE TROLY-CURTIN. (AuPior of PhrynetU and London and PhrynetU Married.) THIS is not a dissertation on mildew, phylloxera, and other blights of the vine which go to make a mauvaise année, as the wine-growers say in my country. This sort of rot is what that delicious dégustatrice Delysia calls insanity, and the dry ...

... HORS D'CEUVRES. JVar ill Words of One Syllable The Simple Russian The So-called Vomers Hints on Committing Suicide Peaceful War On Business Principles THE Chinese are said to be sorry they invented gunpowder. Yet war with them is simple and straightforward. No wounded, no truces, no hospital scandals (there being no necessity for hospitals), no unseemly wrangling about explosive bullets, white ...