4 AUGUST 1950, page 26

Two Entertainments

IT all began, years ago, with an apparently unusable idea noted on the flap of one of Mr. Greene's envelopes; "I had paid my last farewell to Harry a week ago, when his coffin......

Udgements Thirty Years Old

The Genius of Europe..By Havelock Ellis. (Williams and Norgate. 125. 6c1.) THIS is not perhaps the most fortunate moment to have chosen for the publication of Havelock Ellis's......

Fiction

The House by the Medlar Tree. By Giovanni Verga. Translated from the Italian by Eric Mosbacher. (Weidenteld and Nicolson, los. 6c1.) Quorum. By Phyllis Bentley. (Gollancz. tos.......