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Mr. Ashley Gibson's stories are generally amusing and (although sonietimeS)

in a bitter vein. He has been an editor in Fleet Street, a iree4ance, a soldier, a traveller, and has Met- a host of interesting and notable people, from Henry James to Augustus John. In Postscript to Adventure (Dent, 10s. 6d.) he writes w,ith an engaging airiness of life, literature and death as :he saw it-on the Somme. The light style need not -Mind the reader to the considerable "qualities underlying- the authoeg method.' -"Mt. 'Gibson is a first-rate writer when he takes the.,Dees*,91try„ :,010.1g ; he has given

us a hundred vivid pictures here, and if his book is chiefly a medley- of bright impressions rather than an orderly autobiography, that, after all, is what he intended it to be.

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