19 JANUARY 1929, Page 26

It is now possible to get all the plays of

J. M. Barrie in one volume of rather over eight hundred pages. Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton have given us a good plain edition at the reasonable price of 21s. We can now browse among very real fairies and very unreal people to our hearts' content. And after all there are still many. of us left who are not too high- brow to be grateful for an evening by -the fireside- with Peter Pan and Maggie and Crichton.

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