11 MAY 1944, page 20

Fiction

Number One. By John Dos Passos. (Constable. 8s. 6d.) 99 °,;,. By John Gloag. (Cassell. 7s. 6d.) Katherine Christian. By Hugh Walpole. (Macmillan. ios. 6d.) THERE seems nothing......

Shorter Notices To Write A Book Of A Few Thousand

words on wild flowers in Britain and to be both original and informative cannot be an easy task ; and in so far as Mr. Grigson succeeds, it is because the poet in him prevents......

The Eighth Army. (h.m. Stationery Office. Is.) One...

from a book with this title. Yet after reading it a certain amount of disappointment is felt. The photographs are good and well reproduced and the diagrammatic maps are dear and......

This Is The Complementary Volume To Mr. De La Mare's

recent Collected Poems, and comprises his poems, originally intended f3r children omitted in that volume, and contains all the poems puffs listed separately as Peacock Pie,......

The Bug-destroyer

Cockney Campaign. By Frank R. Lewey, With a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Clement Attlee, M.P., P.C. (Stanley Paul. r6s.) " HrrLEtt,"' suggests Mr. Lewey, "may live in history as......