... THE event of the week, as far as the world of novels is concerned, is publication of Mr. Graham Greene's THE HEART OF THE MATTER (Heine mann. 9s. 6d.). It is news, too, because this is, at least partly, a love story, and love stories as such have not been the basis for Mr. Greene's reputation as a writer. It is also the story of a different kind of saint, though the author might dispute that ...

... . P. Moran, Operative. By Percival Wilde. (Gollancz 8s. 6d.) The name should have been spelt with two o's. But I found these stories of a Correspondence School detective highly diverting. The Lost Ant. By Miriam Blanco-Fombona. (Allen and Unwin 7s. 6d.) A crudely-written tale about an Andean peasant who wins a lottery and becomes a diplomat in London. Chinese Crackers. By Edward Ward. (The ...

... By C. A. Leieune BLANCHE FURY.-- a Technicolor British film from Joseph Shear ing's case-history of a Victoria governess, who takes a post in her uncle's home and finds herself involved in family feud and murder. Blanche Fury (Valerie Hobson) marries her employer's son, but falls in love with her employer's land agent (Stewart Granger): an angry young man who gets that way because he is ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE LATE HAVE 1 LOVED THEE. By Ethel Mannin. (Jarrolds 12s. 6 d.) NO RESTING PLACE. By Ian Niall. (Heinemann 9s. 6d.) THE LOVELY AND THE LOVED. By Joan Morgan. Macdonalds 8s. 6 d.) TEMPESTUOUS PETTICOAT. By Clare Leighton. (Gollancz 12s. 6 d.) LATE HAVE I LOVED THEE.-- I find it hard to do justice to Miss Ethel Mannin's new novel, for while ...

... Rupert Croft-Cooke THE UNFORGIVEN.-- Of this interest ing novel the publishers state that though Howard Clewes has used a circumstance of war as a peg on which to hang his story, 'The Unforgiven' is not a war book. Then what is? Here we have a group of partisans whose military ranks are stated with some relish, for they are eleven in number and the last remnants of an Army Corps. Surround ...

... . The Derelict Day. By Alan Ross. (Lehmann 5s.) Are there still, I wonder, those speculative book-collectors who buy the first editions of young writers in the hope of a rise,' and regard the critic as a sort of tipster If so, here is an opportunity for them. The Horseman's Year. Edited by W. E. Lyon. (Collins 10s. 6d.) A survey of topics and events of interest to horsemen. And incidentally a ...

... PALESTINE: A PREJUDICED APPROACH Robin Maugham's New Book on the Problem of Jew and Arab In May 1947 Zionist Ben Hecht wrote in a New York Post advertisement addressed to the terrorists of Palestine: Every time you blow up a British arsenal, or wreck a British gaol, or send a British railroad train sky-high, or rob a British bank, or let go with your guns and bombs at British betrayers and ...

... THE ROAD TO HEAVEN.-- A Swedish miracle play with a touch of Green Pastures, showing how a man presumes to demand justice of God, and is very nearly claimed by Satan. Grave and beautiful film-making and unusually sound theology. le silence est d'or. The film that marks the return of Rene Clair and Maurice Chevalier to their native cinema is frankly a disappoint ment. A patchy little piece ...

... . By Dorothy Clewes. (Harrap 8s. 6d.) Bucolic romance, lush and creamy with nice sentiments. Another of these charming old general practitioners. 2L ...

... . By James T. Farrell. (Routledge 10s. 6d.) The story of a few months spent in New York by a rather dreary adolescent who wants to be a writer. a. ...

... . Bv Fan Nichols. (W. H. Allen; 8s. 6d.) Not longer than I can help. R. C.-C. ...

... . By Julian Amery. (Macmillan 18s.) An important and at the same time immensely readable study of guerilla warfare in Albania. It ends with the now-familiar tale of betrayal and treachery, but Mr. Amery assures us that a resistance movement still exists and will one day be avenged. BOOKS IN BRIEF ...