1 OCTOBER 1932, Page 38

- Further Fiction

THE PASCARELLA FAMILY. By Franz Werfel. (Jarrolds. 7s. 6d.)—The six Pascarella children fight their own battles, for and against a despotic father, in a fine chronicle by the author of The Hidden Child. Herr Werfel leaves no shade of thought to our imagination, but his own imagination is of such high quality that we accept his every word. His family has colour and personality, and he writes brilliantly of the strange pattern of their existence..