1 OCTOBER 1932, Page 38

HOME BREWED. By Oswald H. Davis. (Dent. 7s. 6d.)— This

home-brewing epic of a small public-house in the Black COuntry labours heavily under the burden of its author's curious prose. He has a good tale to tell, however, and a good dislike of big brewing combines ; and the wrapper claims for his novel " a bitter, full-bodied tang that is frequently ' lacking in present-day fiction (as it is in present-day beer)."