12 APRIL 1930, page 37

The Secret Of Chekhov

That Worthless Fellow Platonov. By Anton Chekhov. Trans. lated from the Russian by John Cournos. (Dent. 6s.) IT would be unfair to apply the ordinary principles of criticism to......

Tottel's Travels

Pink Furniture. By A. E. Coppard. (Cape. 7s. 6d.) ONE would doubt very much whether any more surprising book than Pink Furniture is likely to appear -this publishing season.......

Anti-romanticism In France

Tradition and _Barbarism : A Survey of Anti - Romanticism in Frame. By P. Mansoll Jones. (Faber and Faber. 7s. 6d.) IT is in these days almost a commonplace -outside France to......