27 JULY 1945, page 20

New Penguins

A South Sea Diary. By S. W. Powell.—Escape to Switzerland. By G. R. de Beer.— The Island of Captain Sparrow. By S. Fowler Wright.—Within the Tides. By Joseph Conrad.—La Franc......

Painters And Craftsmen

GENIUS is not a result of " the infinite capacity for taking pains," and yet there is a half-truth in this saw. Genius, to coin a slightly different maxim, is to some extent the......

Fiction

The Winds of Fear. By Hodding Carter. (Gollancz. 8s. 6d.) Young 'Un. By Herbert Best. (Cape. 9s. 6d.) Through the Storm. By Philip Gibbs. (Hutchinson. 10s. 6d.) Folly Bridge. By......