... MISS MARY MITCHELL'S new novel is a long, long step away from A Warning to Wantons; a step towards the sober, revealing light of the everyday. There is little room for gaiety in the theme the writer has chosen, and the emphasis is decisively on facts rather than fancies. Neverthe less, THE PILGRIMAGE OF MRS. DESTINN (Methuen. 9s. 6d.) is very far from being a dull book. It may not have the ...

... Elizabeth Bewehs The Ides of Summer Attic and Area Acres and Pains The Englishman's Home The Governess at Ashburton Hall Aights at the Opera ARE there-- can there really be-- characters who are precipitators of other people's doom, carriers, in the illness sense, of misfortune? Plane and railway accidents, large-scale fatalities such as earthquakes and fires would, if so, follow in such a ...

... (Mr tfcu Anthony Cookmttti ivith Tom Titt Musical Chairs (Playhouse) SEVENTEEN years ago this tragic farce won instant recognition. It was a first play, and nobody doubted its right to rank with the small number of remarkable first plays written within living memory-- Widowers' Houses, The Shadow of a Gunman, The Silver Box, Journey's End, David Ballard, Hindle Wakes, Berkeley Square. Perhaps ...