22 JUNE 1929, Page 33

WOMEN ARE LIKE THAT. By E. M. Delafield. (Mac- millan.

7s. 6d.)—Women certainly think, feel, and behave as Miss Delafield describes various types of them in these short stories. She does not, of course, give us the whole truth ; what writer with such a theme could ? She does not flatter her own sex. It is the weaker side of feminine nature that inspires her most successfully. She is at her best when revealing women's little foibles, vanities, and falsities, or when probing to the hidden fact or illusion of " romance " that lurks in the heart of the apparently devoted and dutiful wife. There is a touch of malice in many of her stories ; but subtle humour and sympathy are the prevailing character- istics of this delightfully readable book.