... WHAT a fruitful field for speculation is a literary collaboration! Who, for instance, writes what piece or pieces, and what happens when they disagree, as often they must? For our entertainment, Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge creates Anthony Anstruther, a successful collaboration in thrillers. One half, Ossian Routledge, expires drama- ticallv in the British Museum. As it turns out, the other half, ...

... EVERYONE who read and enjoyed Sir Patrick Hast ings' autobiography, and a great many people appear to have done so, will welcome CASES IN COURT (Heinemann. 15s.), in which this great advocate reviews twenty- one of his most famous cases, ranging from the notorious trial of Bob Sievier to the Laski case. Sir Patrick Hastings calls these reminiscences, and he sets them down, each from the ...

... MISS EVELYN HARDY calls THE CONJURED SPIRIT SWIFT (Hogarth Press. 15s.) A Study in the Relationship of Swift, Stella and Vanessa. The publishers point out that what they call the enigma of Swift's relationships has been done often, but mostly by men. Of the I handful of ladies who have tackled this difficult essay in pnocn f inn (on/1 4-Viorr lauiuai o^/uuuiauuu \aiiu muj include Lady ...

... THE writing oi fiction upon biblical subjects appears to have become a major American industry. It also seems to be a highly profitable one. Mr. Lloyd Douglas, for instance, has broken all records with his sales of The Kobe and The Big Fisherman, while Mr. Fulton Oursler has been leading the American best-selling field for some time with The Greatest Story Ever Told. Now we have a novel based ...

... BECAUSE it is the current Book Society choice, ALICE (Cassell. Ss. 6d.), by Elizabeth Eliot, should be due for an imme diate success; a remarkable thing to happen to any first novel. The first thing to strike a reviewer about it is its easy assurance and absence of those immature faults of technique which can be so excusable in most first novels. For instance, Miss Eliot does not disdain Mr. ...