29 MAY 1941, page 24

Fiction

I AM unable to arrange these four books in any order of merit. By ordinary rules, Mr. Freeman is the best novelist in the list, but I find him dull ; Miss Mack tells a tolerable......

Shorter Notices

Britain and Europe 1900-1940. By Douglas Jerrold. (Collins. 7s. 6d.) IT would be useful to analyse the assumptions of British foreign policy, or even to state clearly what they......

The Source Of The Sun ' S Energy We Know Something About

all that concerns the sun except two things—its birth and its death—and it is these exceptions that Professor Gamow has chosen as the ostensible subject of his very interesting......

Another Part Of The Forest. By G. B. Stem. (cassell.

12s. 6d.) WHIMSICAL, wordy, sentimental in a large blowsy way, another big chunk of autobiography follows Miss Stern's Monogram. If one can talk about form at all in relation to......