15 NOVEMBER 1924, Page 26

The Shallow End. By Ian Hay. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7s.

ad. net.)—Mr. Ian Hay frankly warns his readers that his present book deals in jocular mood with light subjects, for this surely cannot be called an unfair definition of his descrip- tive title. Many of his little studies are very funny—notably his description of a film melodrama—but it must be owned that " shallow " was an unfortunate word for -him to use in connexion with this collection.