28 DECEMBER 1929, Page 23

THE OMNIBUS BOOK. No. 1. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) —Little more

can be said about the Omnibus Book than that it is a bargain. It contains two long novels and one short novel, the latter by Clemence Dane ; two long short stories

by F. Tennyson Jesse and Max Beerbohm; essays by H. M. Tomlinson • some articles by A. P. erbert and some poems by Siegfried Sassoon. It is, as the publishers assert, a good selection of holiday reading. To judge by the varia-

tions in type and the erratic pagination, its components must have been obtained by reprinting with the type used for other editions. The effect is slovenly, but the book remains a bargain.