19 DECEMBER 1941, page 14

An Epoch-marker

Cock-a-doodle-do. Charles B. Cochran. (Dent. iss.) THE title and sub-title of Mr. Cochran's book—Cock-a-doodle-do, Reminiscences at Random—anticipate but do not disarm criti-......

Fiction

Herself Surprised. By Joyce Cary. (Michael Joseph. 8s.) Green Acres. By Doreen Wallace. (Coffins. gs. 6d.) The Gay Gaillard. By Margaret Irwin. (Chatto and Windus. zos. 6d.)......

Housman And His Publisher

HOUSMAN'S character was such that many who did not know him, and not a few perhaps who did, have wondered what he was really like ; and the appearance of another volume......