15 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 20

However many copies one might possess of Tristram .Shandy one

would still want Messrs. Lane's beautifully printed and bound edition at 25s., with Mr. John Austen's clever decora- tions. His full page illustrations, not unreminiseent of the woodcuts of Derain, deliberately heavy and crowded, are less successful, but by their witty grossness they enter into

certain moods of the work admirably. Mr. Austen, in short, is a sympathetic " fellow reader," and makes the good things of Tristram Shandy gleam and wink from these pages so

that we are compelled to stop and wink back.

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