11 DECEMBER 1926, Page 30

• THE *CUBICAL CITY. By Jannet Flanner. _ (Putnam.

7s. 60.)-The book is well named, for it is 'essentially akin to that modernist school of art which relies Upon bold line and crude splashes of vivid, primitive colour. With its original and striking choice 'and. economy of wogs and its daring metaphor it is obviously written for effeet, and is clever enough to be effective, the....style being well suited to the subject, the world. of theatrical art in New York. Goldstein, theatrical producer, uglyt bestial, vulgar,, is yet capable of deep emotion and a sentimentality which makes him pathetic and almost lovable. It is easily the best piece of characterization in the bobk..