In The Structure of the Novel (Hogarth Press, 3s. 6d.)
Mr. Edwin Muir shows himself again a thoughtful and sober crttic. He analyses some of the best-known English novels under the headings " Novels of Action and Character," " The Romantic Novel," " The Chronicle Novel," " The
Period Novel." The most notable of his book are
those in Which he -diatinguishea between ' and t` round" characters ; and shows the different laws which hold for the novels in which characters are presented- since for all, com- plete and unchangeable, in contrast with the novels in which the characters develop, enlarge and become fuller as the story progresses. Perhaps his distinction between time novels and space novels is too modish ; but he is to be con- gratulated on having written an excellent aid to the apprecia- tion of fiction.
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