14 NOVEMBER 1947, page 24

Contrary To The Impression Its Title May Create, This Small

and attractive volume is a breath from The Countryman. It is a good many decades since Mr. Robertson Scott worked 'in Fleet • Street, though in his first chapter (a reprint of a......

Shorter Notices

Paintings by Felix Kelly ; Paintings and Drawings by GregOrio Prieto. (Falcon Press. 10s. 6d. each.) AT the present moment neither of the artists represented in these admirably......

Parson And Poet

ON finishing this book I wondered whether there is any value in long analytical biographies, since this short life creates with the simp:est means the picture of a man so vivid......

Fiction

The Hunted. By Albert J. Guerard. (Longmans. • 9s. 6d.) NOTHING outstanding this week : three readable novels which fail to raise the critical pulse but will serve to mark the......