27 FEBRUARY 1932, Page 26

New Novels

SWISS FAMILY MANHATTAN. By Christopher Morley. (Faber and Faber. 6s.)—The new Swiss Family on a New York skyscraper : their moralizings and demoralization when they explored after their airship's wreck. This is good foolery, but rather .commonplace satire • we might expect more from the author of Thunder on tie Left: