22 OCTOBER 1927, Page 35

The new term's first Granta is before us, with contributions

largely from the new Editor, who has enlarged and remodelled the paper. There are some neat book reviews—as that of M. Maurice Dekobra's latest "shocker "—" I do not agree that the human heart can be wound up with the key to a tin of sardines," and we shall watch succeeding issues with interest. A few really good contributions are worth a most of second rate stuff, as the Editor: probably knows.