21 AUGUST 1920, Page 22

The Hogarth Press has produced a delightfully pretty, thin little

volume in The Story of the Siren (by E. M. Forster, 28. 6d. net). The azure marbled-paper cover is the dress above all others for the imaginative little story which it clothes. We aro not sure that one very short story makes a book ; but the fault in Mr. Forster's story is quantitative, not qualitative. The impression of blue Mediterranean weather is particularly suc- cessful.