S horter Notice A Passage to India. By E. M. Forster.
(Dent. 3s.) THIS agreeable edition (in Everyman's Library) of Mr. Forster's admirable novel awakens expectations which a closer inspection of the volume rather damps. The dust-cover bears the words " with an introduction by Peter Burra and some notes by the author." Reflections on India by Mr. Forster sixteen years later would be read with some avidity ; actually the notes are precisely twelve in number, and are of the order of " Fielding's Garden House really stands near Aurangabad." Mr. Burra's introduction is a reprint of an article on Mr. Forster's novels generally which appeared in The Nineteenth Century in 1934, A Passage to India receiving due attention with the rest. As makeweight, Mr. Forster adds a memoir of Mr. Burra, who was killed in a flying disaster in 1937.
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