24 JANUARY 1947, page 24

Matters Of Literature

WHAT do you "follow " when you engage in the discipline of letters? Any professor of English must ask himself that question again and again, and no very certain answer is......

Houses Without Economics

THIS little book, we are informed in the preface, is the first of three dealing with " the demographic or biological aspect which forms the subject of the present volume, to be......

South American Hero

Bolivar and the Independence of Spanish America. By J. B. Trend. (Hodder and Stoughton for the English Universities Press. 4s. 6d.) Bolivar and the Independence of Spanish......

Fiction

The Haunted Woman. By David Lindsay. (Gollancz. 7s. 6d.) The Faithless Mirror. By Honor Croome. (Christophers. 8s. 6d.) THE blurb which is printed on the wrapper of The Haunted......