13 OCTOBER 1928, page 27

An Exciting Chaos

The Star-Spangled Manner. By Beverley Nichols. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) THERE is real power in Mr. Beverley Nichols' new book. It is the best thing he has yet done. Perhaps America......

Victorian Silhouettes

PHILIP GUEDALLA'S Victorian ladies are very pleasant to meet. Of Mrs. Carlyle (to be frank) we are a little tired and could wish that he had not set her at the entrance of his......

A National Institution

The B.B.C. Handbook 1929. (The British Broadcasting Corpora- tion, Savoy Hill, London, W.C. 2.) WHEN we reflect on the British Broadcasting Corporation we are always astonished......