VARIETY AMONG THE NEW NOVELS: Marlin Boyd has the Suavity of Maugham: Mabel Tyrrell's Romance, The White Stream
... THERE is a good deal of the suavity of Somerset Maugham's writing in Mr. Martin Boyd's new novel, SUCH PLEASURE (Cresset Press. Ios. 6d.), but there is also the author's own quality of story-telling and the evocative power by which he suc ceeds in picturing a room or a countryside or just a woman's dress. And better than all these. he is able to e voice the teeling ot a period. I enjoyed this ...