21 JUNE 1935, Page 6

Of a forthcoming novel : An essentially English novel, dealing

with the fine and simple things of life—birth, love and death.

The plot 'is concerned with the strange repetition of the same situation from generation to generation. Yes, they do keep happening somehow. The repetition, in fact, is getting stranger every day. ' Did not the Poet Laureate once write a novel called ODTAA, or One Damned Thing After Another?

lows,