31 JULY 1947, page 26

Fiction

Eustace and Hilda. By L. P. Hartley. (Putnam. 10s. 6d.) • WHEN a novelist takes a small group or a pair of characters as subjects for a succession of novels he is admittedly......

Book Notes

A GENEROUS offer of paper by Messrs. Allan Wingate has made pos- sible the publication of a very important survey in pamphlet form of the current book shortage and its causes:......

Mixed Bag

THE donnish specialist in literary subjects is a familiar figure—the man who spends his life in minute study of one writer and is bewildered and lost when he is off his single......