The Cornhill Magazine : Spring, 1953. (John Murray. 2s. 6d.)
THE greater part of this number of the Cornhill is taken up by " The Violins of Saint-Jacques," Patrick Leigh. Fermor's account of the disappearance through a volcanic eruption of an island in the French Antilles, and of the events on Saint-Jacques which immediately preceded the tragedy, as (ostensibly) related to him by one of the few survivors. Those who miss an editorial note which classes it as " fiction " might spend some time worrying how much of the tale was true and how much poetically imagined, and this is perhaps the highest tribute one could pay to Mr. Leigh Fermor's persuasive narrative, which is most vividly written and artistically composed. This issue also includes four new Flora Nonsensica, in Edward Lear's characteristic manner, from the Harvard collection, and contributions by Betty Miller and Iris Origo.
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