The Pageant Of Cuba By Hudson Strode The Historian Whose
aim is to thrill as well as to instruct could not find a better subject than Cuba. Mr. Strode's The Pageant of Cuba (Jarrold, 18s.) is as its title suggests, intended for......
Current Literature
AS THE FOREIGNER SAW US By Malcolm Letts Here is a composite picture of the English scene from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century as it appeared to observers from France,......
What Is American Literature ?
- By Carl Van Doren The plan of Mr. Van Doren's book (Routledge, 3s. ad.). is of the simplest. Having concluded what writers are the American essence, it tries to define each of......
Diary From A Dustbin
By H. B. Creswell This distinctly unpleasant and quite amusing diary (Faber, 7s. 6d.) is a book to make one wince. But that presumably is the author's intention : to appal the......