10 MAY 1940, page 20

Blue Pencil

Public School Slang. By Morris Marples. (Constable. los.) ENGLAND, as every good Nazi knows, is a country of savages, and Mr. Marples has done a service to the invader, whenever......

Fiction

The Backward Son. By Stephen Spender. (Hogarth Press. 75. 6d.) Myers. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d.) MR. STEPHEN SPENDER, in his first novel, and Mr. Joyce Cary, in his sixth, offer us......