The Nest. By Anne Douglas Sedgwick. (Edward Arnold. 6s.) —The
incisive and analytical talent of Anne Douglas Sedgwick does not lend itself quite happily to the production of the short story. Although almost all the stories in this collection are accounts of a problem and not of an incident, yet the reader cannot help feeling that the author would have realized her characters much better, and therefore have interested him much more, if she had written of them at length. There is, it is needless to say, some excellent writing both in "The Nest" and " The White Pagoda," while the situation in " A Forsaken Temple " is almost too poignant. Nevertheless it is a little difficult to believe in the heroine having suddenly fallen in love with her husband, who appears even at the end of the story to be quite unchanged from the very dull young man of the beginning. The stories in this volume are all clever sketches, but one cannot help wishing that Anne Douglas Sedgwick would not waste her time writing them.
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