7 APRIL 1923, Page 22

Dry Fish and Wet. By Elias Kraemmer. (Gyldendal. 7s. 6d.

net.) A volume of short, humorous stories, somewhat after the W. W. Jacobs kind. Amusing, but the laugh is a little forced. There is so much of this kind of thing already in the English and American languages that one would hardly have thought it worth translating.