ShOrfer Notices
THIS is the second volume of an annual miscellany with
for most tastes. Most remarkable, perhaps, are the two accounts of flying disasters—" Shot down over Malta," by Squadron-Leade MacLachlan and "-Sergeant Carmichael," which Flying Officer regards with some justification as his best story. This author r appears in the book in his more familiar guise as H. E. Bates, wi a goodish short novel, perhaps a little too reminiscent of some of his other stories. There is also an admirable evocation of the last days of Holland House, by Peter Quennell, whose studies of t period outclass most contemporary biography. James Agate contn butes a characteristic article on Edith Evans, Thomas Russell writes on Beecham, Sean O'Casey on the renowned Lady Gregory, Eric Newton on Paul Nash, and D. W. Brogan on Roosevelt There are some moving photographs of blitz and- war by Douglas Glass, Bi Brandt, and Humphrey Spender, wood engravings by Agnes Mill Parker, an article on athletics by Bernard Darwin, and two se of notes on animals by Will Cuppy and H. E. Bates. The Steinbe story is rather disappointing, and so, too, is Miss Dilys Powell "in the Train." A readable bootc.
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