FICTION
The Silver Stallion. By James Branch Cabell. (The 13odley Head. 7s. fki. net.)—Those who recall with pleasure Mr. Cabell's Jurgen will be enchanted to learn in The Silver Stallion what befell the boon companions of the rascally Don Manuel, Count of Poretsine, after his departure from this world. The story is in effect somewhat discontinuous, since it follows the by no means always creditable adventures of the Fellowship of the Silver Stallion, first one and then another. Considered singly the tale of Coth and his defiance of a distant kod is by far the hest thing in the book; it has feeling and majestjr. as welt as penetrating wit. Other of the tales are More Gallic than some readers- may apPreciate, Or savour too much of the desiccated mentality of Anatele France. Mr. Cohen is indeed, an acquired taste, and in his Jurgenesque vein provides literature which formerly. would have sheltered itself beneath) the sofa-cushion. Talented he certainly is : a brilliant seeker after effects, but not, eminently, wholly an agreeable one, And the number of characters- in this latest vOlume is posi- tively confusing..
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