20 SEPTEMBER 1940, page 20

In Its Avowed Aim, " To Focus As A Whole

and with regard to its bearing on our present problems . . . the literary tradition in Scots," Mr. Speirs' rather stiffly written collection of studies falls far short of Edwin......

Miss Du Maurier Is A Follower Of Dr. Buchman, And

the silo sketches collected here are designed to show the value of " Mo Rearmament." Miss du Maurier is rightly described on the cp%, as the author of Rebecca. Actually this......

Fiction

Jacaranda. By Kathleen Bellamy. (Methuen. 8s.) I THINK that the first of this week's three novels is badly named. Its hero, Little Son, afterwards called Manoel de Deus, is an......

Shorter Notices

TWENTY-SEVEN years elapsed 'between the second and third editions of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Now after a space of half that time Dr. Cones has brought his......

Sea Urchin : The Adventures Of Jorgen Jorgensen. By Rhvi

Davies. (Duckworth. 8s. 6d.) IT was the fate of Jorgen Jorgensen to flourish when the Romantic revival was sweeping Europe. Disdaining his oval little Denmark, he fixed his love......