29 MAY 1947, page 24

Fiction

Bing Cotton. By Thomas Armstrong. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) READERS who approach The Tables of the Law expecting to find a novel of the order of pseph and His Brethren will be......

Short Stories

THOSE of us who failed in childhood to acquire a taste for cautionary tales need not be discouraged by the title given the collection of four seventeenth-century Chinese stories......

"the Expenses Of The Sovereign " Tins Latest And M Ost...

addition to a famous series is well up to standard. Like several other volumes in that series—Mr. D. H. Robertson's Money, for instance—it combines a clear and un- ambi g uous......