Fiction
LATE in the day and unnecessarily Mr. Wells defends the novel of ideas—his novel of ideas. But the formula he has evolved whereby to harness his great novelistic powers to the......
Mr. Wodehouse Carries On
Quick Service. By P. G. Wodehouse. (Jenkins. 7s. 6d.) IN the closing stages of this absurd but engaging frolic Mr. Wodehouse's hero makes a remark which will startle even the......
Shorter Notices
Comments and Characters. By John Buchan. Edited by W. Forbes Gray. (Nelson. 7s. 6d.) RATHER over thirty years ago John Buchan had general editorial charge for two years of a......
Battle : The Life Story Of Winston Churchill. By Hugh
Martin. (Gollancz. 2s. 6cL) This energetic, rather breathless, account of the Prime Minister's life is written by a journalist with claims to attention. " I was at the Sidney......