28 NOVEMBER 1941, page 18

" Poor Dick "

The Correspondence of Richard Steele. Edited by Rae Blanchard. (Oxford University Press. 355.1 ONE of the most elegant and insidious literary devices of the eighteenth century......

Children's Books (1)

CHILDREN, like adults, are reading more this winter and for the same reasons. Tor intelligent twelve- or fourteen-year-olds (evacuees especially) nothing could be more suitable......

Fiction

Percy Wallingford and Mr. Pidger. By Lord Berners. (Basil Blackwell. 3s. 6d.) Two Days in Aragon. By M. J. Farrell. (Collins. 8s.) 7s. 6d.) I BEGIN by commending half a book.......