29 APRIL 1943, page 18

Fiction

Frossia. By E. M. Almedingen. (The Bodley Head. 9s. 6d.) Send Me Down. By Henry Steig. (Jarrolds. 9s. 6c1.) I HAVE read Frossia slowly, and every night, closing the book, and......

Shorter Notice

Arthur Mee's Oxfordshire. (Hodder and Stoughton. los. 6d.) THE subject and illustrations make this an attractive book, and it is perhaps needlessly unkind to compare it with the......

Country Life Was There Ever A Year In Which Shakespeare's

tribute to his favourit month was more graciously justified? When proud-pied April dressed in all his trim Hath put a spirit of youth in everything. The hedgerows are pied with......