1 OCTOBER 1932, Page 38

' PEACOCK'S FEATHER. By George S. Hellman. (Jarrokls.' 7s. 6d.)—Aesop

might be surprised to learn that he was a

great lover as well as a wit, and that his hunchback and squint were assumed—he best knows why—to hide his good looks. Mr. Hellman displays his inside information about Aesop's doings at the court of Croesus in a lively and amusing piece of sophistication. -