In the Meantime. By Howard Spring. (Constable. izs. 6d.) MR.
HOWARD SPRING has reached, his publishers tell us, " distinguished position of a best-selling novelist.", No longer in mood of Heaven Lies About Us, a further account of his career given, but now it is his public life which provides the bulk of t material. His method is discursive and desultory. Mr. Spring a a working journalist, and his book is the book of a newspaper in first and foremost. All is grist, and the result rather a mud of ideas and experiences, so that tomorrow it will be less fresh, I interesting than it is today. Mr. Spring worked for Manchester Guardian in the days of C. P. Scott, wh he disliked, but his affection for this great provinc newspaper, and its home, emerge clearly from the gene welter of confessions and impressions. He gives numerous facts figures about the selling of novels which may interest the tyro, whom he offers much sensible advice. Among the bouquets brickbats is a sincere plea for conscientious objectors which d him credit, and an extravagant attack on Lytton Strachey, wh Eminent Victorians he sees as a symbol of " those twenty dea years," between the two wars. Since this book was first publish in 1918 one can only suggest that Mr. Spring takes the trouble re-read it for his sounder information.
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