20 NOVEMBER 1953, page 55

Short Stories

FRANK O'CONNOR defines his latest collection of short stories as an attempt at " something for which he has secretly always longed, the Perfect Book " and his publishers,......

New Verse

Poems, 1953. By Robert Graves. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) 0 Lovely England. By Walter de la Mare. (Faber. 10s. 6d.) INCREASINGLY, as one reads the work of contemporary poets under the......