31 MAY 1935, page 26

A Butterfly For Sale

Memoirs of a Cheat. Sacha Guitry's Tale. (Gollancz. 6s.) Ma. GOLLANCZ grows very quipsome. From an encircling scarlet band we learn that Memoirs of a Cheat has gained the ' Prix......

Conventional Poems

Love Poems. By W. H. Diiiries: (Cape. Ss. 6d.) A Winter Diary. By Mark van Doren. (Macmillan 8s. (id.) HERE are five books of verse, all written, presumably, by honest,......

" Little Women "

Louisa Alcoa. By Cornelia Meigs. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) I HAVE often thought that a volume, itself delightful, might be written on Delightful Books " ; those books which, whatever......