... Elizabeth Betvens Creatures of Circumstance Treadmill Leave to Presume the Death The Novel Since 1939 QUITE an interesting study for the sub- historian could be: errors which gave rise to famous false alarms. These, I imagine, would be found to thicken with the approach to our own fortunate day: the type writer must be responsible for many. I advisedly say the typewriter, not the young lady at ...

... IT is some years since Mr. Somerset Maugham wrote in a preface to a volume of short stories, significantly titled The Mixture as Before, I shall not write any more stories. In the preface to CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE (Heinemann. ios. 6d.), Mr. Maugham blames the proof-reader and claims that he had written many and not any. He says that some of the stories in Creatures of Circumstance were ...

... C Ur 7fc- Dr. Angelus (Phoenix) Anthony Cookman and Tom Titt AN eccentric Glasgow doctor poisons his wife's mother. His innocent young partner obligingly signs the certificate regularizing the death. The eccentric then poisons his wife, and again the partner's signature is forthcoming. But youth and innocence do not last for ever. The good young man's suspicions are aroused, he sends for the ...

... ESCAPE TO TEXAS A best-belling Novel and Its Brooklyn Author A Memoir of Dunkirk, and Other Books Briefly Reviewed In the past half-century American writers have excelled in the territorial novel. In this medium they have found a niche secure in modern literature. They have taken the history of their country, the rugged story of pioneering and adventure, and they have brought it to life. Edna ...