Davies. R 2s. 6d.) The Worst Thing About This Book
is its dust- jacket. With its bad reproduction of a singularly uninspired "still," it might have been designed for one of those reprints advertised as " The Book of the Film."......
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Timber Building in England from Early e , Times to the end of the 17th Century. By Fred H. Crossley. (Batsford. 3os.) THIS is a long account, profusely illustrated, of the many......
Nelson's Band Of Brothers. By Ludovic Kennedy. (odhams....
on showing that the captains who served under Nelson were, in more than a sentimental sense, " a band of brothers," Mr. Kennedy selects for his purpose the records of fourteen......
In The New Opera Glass (sylvan Press. 5s.) Mr. Robert
Elkin has made an entertaining little book, which Mr. Robert Turner has decorated, out of the ludicrous synopses of opera plots written in extraordinary "Foreigner's English "......
The Shelbourne. By Elizabeth Bowen.
(Harrap. r Es.) Miss BOWEN'S choice of the principal hotel in Dublin as the subject for a history, or perhaps the hotel's choice of Miss Bowen as historian, is not happy. The......
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