23 SEPTEMBER 1938, page 26

_ Fiction

By KATE O'BRIEN A Day of Battle. By Vincent Sheean. (Hamish Hamilton. 7s. Bread. By Alexei Tolstoi. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Crooked Eclipse. By Edward Fitzgerald. (Michael Joseph.......

The Development Of Modern Music

A Hundred Years of Music. By Gerald Abraham. (Duck- worth. z5s.) IN the beginning of the nineteenth century the development of European music altered in character, and what had......

News From Spain

REVIEWERS and dust-jackets seldom agree, but when the publishers describe Spanish Recruit as " the first great novel of the Spanish Civil War," they are, I think, speaking no......