28 MARCH 1931, Page 38

GREAT ENGLISH SHORT STORMS. Edited by. Lewis Melville and Reginald

Hargreaves. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.)—The first passenger in this .omnibus is Barnaby Riche (1540) ; the last is Aldous Huxley. In between come Swift, Lamb, Dickens, Saki and seventy-seven others. All are good company and a- few- tell their best stories.