Six Crimes
THE new Simenon is made up of a very good • Maigret story yoked to an extremely bad story about a retired master criminal whose patent absurdity drags the affair into the Sexton......
Fiction
The Sun Is My Undoing, by Miss Marguerite Steen, is the Book Society's choice this month, is eight hundred and eighty-four pages long and weighs about four pounds. It is, as its......
Shortvr Notices
The Northern Garrisons : the Army at War. By Eric Linklater (His Majesty's Stationery Office. 6d.) The Northern Garrisons : the Army at War. By Eric Linklater (His Majesty's......
It Is A Delightful Idea Delightfully Carried Out, This...
of making a composite of English country life by using essays, natural history and extracts from novels. But we could have done with twice as much material and with some of it a......
No One Now Is Likely To Confuse The Two Great
Rousseaus and few remember that Jean-Baptiste ever existed. The beau desordre of his verse, which was so admired around r2o, is merely tedious today. The odes are dead and the......