10 DECEMBER 1927, Page 31

I THINK I REMEMBER. By Magdalen King-Hall. (Butterworth. 7s. 6d.)—The

Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion deceived even the elect into the belief that it was a genuine document. The author's new book—being The Random Recollections of Sir Wickham Woolicomb, an Ordinary English Snob and Gentleman "—is frankly a bur- lesque. As such, it is clever enough, hitting off very pertly the inanities of a certain type of character and those fatuous volumes of reminiscences that pour too freely from the modern printing press.. But this kind of satire has its limits, and Miss King-Hall has spun out into a book what might more fittingly have been compressed into an article or two for Punch.