When The Wind Blows. By Marguerite Steen. (cassell. 78....
Mullyon, half-wild, half-sophisti- cated, lives in the Island of Calvary and changes her character frequently. The story makes good reading, but is not convincing.......
This Pure Young Man. By Irving Fineman. (cassell. 7s....
frank and original book : frankly nasty in places, original because its priggish hero disproves the theory that virtue is its own reward. It has won a £1,500 prize.......
The Storm Riders. By Frank Dilnot. (heinemann. 75....
in the early life of William Pitt and his relationship with two spies and an innocent girl are well blended into the background of the Napoleonic wars. A good straightforward......
Yesterday's To-morrow. By Spencer Watts. (elkin Mathews...
post-War novel, this time dealing with a V.A.D. A fair story, but col- loquially written, and containing such truths as " The world is made up of people with all kinds of queer......
Fiction
Prisoners Fanny and Jane. By Colette. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) MR. HENRY WILLIAMSON'S book, like the wild creatures he so lovingly describes, is to be approached delicately, and......
The Sophisticates. By Gertrude Atherton. (chapman And...
the problems of a woman acquitted of murder. A brilliant piece of work, com- bining psychological insight and irony with the thrill of a mystery story.......
These Characters Are Imaginary. By Richard Strachey....
Strachey decorates his account of these imaginary " vile bodies " who haunt the studios and restaurants off Tottenham Court Road, with egregious " James Joyce " interludes. His......
Ship Without Sails. By Barbara Barclay Carter....
fine scholarly novel, whose hero is Dante during the years following his exile, whose object is some interpretation of the Divine Comedy in the light of the poet's life.......
New Novels
MOONFISHER. By Philip Macdonald. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) —Moonfisher, the equine heroine of this exciting yarn, shares the thrills and vicissitudes which beset her owner while......
Maria Fernanda. By Hubert Perez De La Ossa. Trans- Lated
by E. Allison Peers. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 7s. 6d.)—The character of a Spanish beauty who is destined to find no satisfaction in love is revealed in a slow, exquisitely......
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