11 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 3

THE BOOK HARVEST.

TILE present Supplement is devoted chiefly to novels. We open with a short survey of the fiction published so far in 1922, and among individual novels we deal at some length with Mr. Scott Moncrieff's translation of Du cote de Chez Swami—the first volume of the patient and compre- hensive M. Proust's enormous series A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Besides others, we give notices of new novels by Mr. Stephen McKenna, Mr. Robert Hichens and Mr. Arnold Bennett. Of the last two, Mr. Hichens makes a gratifying innovation with a conscientious attempt to write a serious and important novel, while Mr. Bennett persists, it seems, in the less admirable resolve to write none but inferior ones.