Omni NOVELS.—Winesburg, Ohio. By Sherwood Anderson. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d.
net.)—Some of these episodes or character sketches had already appeared in American magazines before their publication in book form. But so remarkable is the unity of their conception that they read as if it had been the original intention that they should be given to the world in their present sequence. The same qualities of insight and imagination which were discernible in The Triumph of the Egg are to be found in these stories of life in the Ohio valley ; but the fact that they exhibit more of artistic restraint and less of a certain passionate crudeness rather belies the date of their authorship, which appears to have been considerably earlier than that of The Triumph of the Egg.—White and Black. By H. A. Shands. (Jonathan Cape. 7s. 6d. net.)—A first novel, dealing with life on a cotton plantation in Texas. The author makes no attempt to interpret the situation he presents or to suggest a remedy for the evils he pictures so graphically. The terrible facts are allowed to speak for themselves.
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