13 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 26

THE LABYRINTH. By Ina Seidel. (The Bodley Head. 7s. 6d.)—George

Forster's father made him into a prig and a pedant. Not even a voyage round the world with Cook could knock the sense out of him : this perhaps is why Frau Seidel's sympathetic study has no humour, • and consistent over-emphasis.