3 NOVEMBER 1939, page 14

* * * * At 4.o A.m. The First Bombardment

begins. The Emperor is entranced. He stands there hour after hour until dawn creeps over Champagne and the sun rises behind him. The first messages begin to come in. The enemy......

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Incidentally, I Am One Of Those Fortunate Authors Who...

the perfect publishers. I have been publishing with them for nineteen years, and I shall go on publishing with them until I, or they, die. Other authors have not estab- lished......

Karl Rosner, During The First German War, Was Attached As

representative of a Berlin newspaper to German head- quarters. He was an observant man, and it fascinated him to watch the relations between the Emperor, Hindenburg and......

This Terrific Hohenzollern Climax Is Described By Herr...

the minutest detail. The drama opens in the little station of Avesnes, where we find the station-master and the chief of the police pacing up and down the platform awaiting the......

People And Things

By HAROLD NICOLSON I LIKE people to talk shop, and of all forms of shop I find publisher-shop the most agreeable. Publishers, like minor poets, are apt, as Wilde said, to put......

The Weak Point In The Story (but It Annoys Publishers

if you say so) is that there was no reason at all why Mr. William Heinemann should not have had his way. I can think of many people who would be delighted to receive a fee for......