21 MAY 1948, page 26

Fiction

THREE of these books—Mr. Sender's, Miss Alexander's and Mr. Desani's—are extremely ambitious. There is even a sort of tepid ambition about Miss Stern's, so that this might have......

The Imaginative Life

Mount Ida. By Monk Gibbon. (Cape. 18s. ) MR. Grimort's book does not tell much of the circumstantial matters of his life. It is selective • and it has selected those moments of......

Shorter Notices

Coventry's Heritage. By Levi Fox. (" The Coventry Evening Tele- graph." 6s.) DEFOE, visiting Coventry at the beginning of the eighteenth century, said that, with its protruding......