20 DECEMBER 1924, Page 24

Man. By E. F. Benson. (Fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d. net.)

—Contains a closely observed study, of an elderly novelist whose fame is waning. Ile is not an attractive figure. The theme is a-little slender for a full-length novel,, and the author himself appears to weary of the subject and cuts his way ruthlessly through his entangling cobwebs so as to have his heroine settled happily,by the end of the book.