19 JUNE 1947, page 26

Fiction

IT is a shock, when one has heard much of the brilliance and originality of any writer, to encounter his work and to find it mediocre. That, however, is my decided reaction to......

Shorter Notices

Elizabeth is Missing. By Lillian de la Torre. (Michael Joseph. 15s.) THIS is an entertaining and comprehensive assessment of all the evidence in the notorious eighteenth-century......

Book Notes The Order Of Release (murray) Is The Story

of John Ruskin and Euphemia Gray as told in their own letters. The story ended; it will be recalled, in - the Ecclesiastical Court where their marriage was annulled. Effie Gray......

Edouard Manet : Pastels. By John Rewald. (bruno Cassirer :

Faber and Faber. 10s. 6d.) MANET liked to point out that he had been recording modern Paris when Degas was still painting history under the influence of Ingres. His pioneering......