... Edwardian Story (Rockliff, 18s.). An Anglo-Irish rheto rician who dreams in genera lities and talks in italics, he writes as he speaks. It may be that the quiet, mellow, humorous Max Beerbohm manner of going back is better, and that one should decant one's ...

... Italian Life and Landscape (Elek, i 12s. 6d.) you feel you are getting not so much the know-how as the S know-all, culturally speaking. He, too, agrees that you can shake off S yournativePuritanism in Capriand even become, to Italian eyes, a devil incarnate ...

... can now speak his mind about other novelists and reviewers, especially the Sunday Top- Corner Boys and spoilt brats! I've never known a reviewer win anything except his review copies, sometimes not even those but quite a number manage to speak their minds ...