... The Storytellers Hold Court Virginia Woolf's Last Jsfovel E. M. Delafield's Family Saga; A Vfapoleonic Refugee Divorce^Court and Other Reminiscences --By Vernon Fane ALMOST anybody will admit that Virginia Woolf's last book, The Years, was not easy to read on first sight, though the kind of reader who would be unprepared to make the effort would be denying himself much aesthetic and ...

... : T^eviewed by Noel Thompson HEIGH-HO for a cheery bunch of books this month in which the war plays little part. For the most part our novelists seem to have said to themselves, Let us be gay, thereby anticipating Mr. A. P. Herbert's famous postscript. Of course Agatha Christie, despite the murders inherent in her novels, always writes with a light touch, but her latest Hercule Poirot story ...

... By Herbert Farjeon Quiet Week-end (Wyndham's) WHEN Turgenev says A Month in the Country, we know that he means a month in the country, and a month in the country it is. But when Esther McCracken (who wrote Quiet Wedding) says Quiet Week-end, we know that she does not mean quiet week-end, and quiet week-end it certainly is not. Unrest to the point of commotion is the keynote of this comedy. On ...