Orion : A Miscellany. (Nicholson and Watson. 6s.i
A NEW literary periodical deserves a welcome, especially when of such excellent quality as is the first number of Orion, a new review, edited by Rosamund Lehmann and C. Day Lewis, which is to appear at unspecified intervals. The editors declare that their aim is " to publish good writing, creative and critical, in prose and verse," and in their first number they have made a good catholic selection, in- cluding an excellent article on the painter Courbet, by John Russell, and an entertaining dialogue between I. Compton-Burnett, the novelist, and M. Jourdain on conversation in novels. One of the most interesting items is an autobiographical fragment by Leonard Woolf on his experiences in India about the year 19oo. There are also poems by Walter de !a Mare, C. Day Lewis, Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir. If the standard of the first number is maintained, Orion will be a valuable new literary periodical.
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