7 JUNE 1940, page 24

Fiction

DURING last week I read the above four collections of short stories, and I swear I read them conscientiously. Their authors are as different from each other in manner as any......

Shorter Notices

The Story and the Fable. An Autobiography by Edwin Muir. (Harrap. ts.) The Story and the Fable. An Autobiography by Edwin Muir. (Harrap. ts.) MR. Mum was born in 1887, the son......

Time And Chance. By Harold Dearden. (heinemann. 12s. 6d.) In

The Wind of Circumstance Dr. Dearden gave a frank and fascinating account of the first thirty years of his life. Time and Chance purports to be a sequel or continuation, but in......

Wales England Wed. By Ernest Rhys. (dent. 155.)

IF and when the literary history of the last fifty years comes to be written in the tranquillity of the two thousands, many of our present-day pundits will assuredly be......

A Great Novel

" ONE of the world's masterpieces of fiction " is a stale phrase, but it must be used of Lermontoff's single novel, published in 1840, the year before his death, at the age of......