Deems Taylor

Originally Compiled by Rupert Hughes; completely Revised and Newly Edited by Deems Taylor and Russell Kerr

Recall all your glorious film memories THIS is a picture story of 50 years of films; told in more than seven hundred selected stills. Half are devoted to outstanding silent films and there are all the classics such as Birth of a Nation. Intolerance, Four Horsemen, Ten Commandments and Gold Rush. You can trace the careers of famous stars like Hepburn, Crawford, Davis, Cable and Dietrich from film to film, and there are nearly 2.000 names in the index. A Pictorial History at the Movies* keeps strictly to its title by devoting every page to stills and limiting the text to detailed captions, this sumptuous volume is beautifully bound for a lifetime's service.

Peter Ibbetson is a romantic novel from the late Victorian era - poignant, melancholic and deeply nostalgic, with a paranormal twist. The plot makes use of the idea of a shared lucid dream in bringing together lovers who are otherwise separated in waking reality, by class and circumstance. Although a powerful love story, it also makes for a fascinating speculative exploration of the nature of human consciousness and the meaning and "true" nature of life. -- review by Michael Graeme (