17 NOVEMBER 1928, Page 29

:display genuine powers of description and . But the writer's vision

is unpleasantly _warped. I is one thing to reveal the hidden splendour in squalor ; but Miss Salt, in these little studies of a neurotic woman or a young actress eager for adventure or a married man in the grip of illicit passion, seems to revel in sordidness for its own sake. Hei. gifts are worthy of tieing used to better purpose.