... THE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. WAR IN VAL D'ORCIA. By Iris Orlgo. THIS is a diary of the war as it affected the owners and tenants of an agricultural estate in Tuscany. It begins in January 1943 with the arrival, at the Marchesa Origo's villa of La Foce, of seven refugee children whose homes in Genoa had been bombed. (Afterwards this number was more than quadrupled.) It closes in ...

... . By JOHN RUSSELL NOW that the ingratitude of the public has robbed us of treats as various as Caste and Antony and Cleopatra, it may be imprudent to speak of such novelties as The White Devil, the return of Leonide Massine, the arrival at the Vaudeville of Now Barabbas, and the prospect of once again seeing the Rosenkavalier at Covent Garden. weDster s i ne vvnite JLievii nas Deen ...

... [HE LITERARY LOUNGER. By L. P. HARTLEY. MANSERVANT AND MAIDSERVANT. By I. Compton- Bumett. MISS COMPTON-BURNETT is a novelist who is sui generis. Her style, her method, her point of view, are all her own. No one wrote like that before, and now, though she has ten much-admired novels to her credit, no one seems inclined to imitate her. Such an attempt, indeed, would be as rash as to try to ...