13 MARCH 1942, page 16

Books Of The Day

Hardy the Unhappy Thomas Hardy. By Edmund Blunden. (Macmillan. 7s. 6d.) THIS is an excellent book, and if it has one special fault it is that Mr. Blunden has not obtruded......

Mr. Maugham And The War

Strictly Personal. By W. Somerset Maugham. (Heinemann. 8s. 6d IT is strange to find Mr. Somerset Maugham in the role of more or less orthodox British propagandist. Suetonius him......