29 NOVEMBER 1930, Page 34

Mr. Aldington in Two Stories (Elkin Mathews and Marrot. 7s.

6d.) tells of a soldier who fell in love with a lady of easy virtue while on leave from France, and overstayed his leave, so that he became a deserter and was shot ; and of the traveller who reaches a country public-house and hears from the publican and his friend the stories of the men from that village who fell in the Great War. Both are well written, rather than well told.