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BEST NOVEL OF 1940

"The Voyago." By Charles Mor- for years through his fictional' The secret agent, Gregory gan. (Macmillan. 81. 6d.). characters he has expressed his Sallust, is always on her track, A new novel by Charles Mor-own hopes and forebodings, his and the story of his intrepid. gan always causes

adventures, together with 'the an acute own philosophy.

those that bless and those that

youngsters.

division among his reviewers, The "babes" in his Intest day-by-day account of the tragic ban. There may be the same novel are a pair of well-educated, events between last spring and the fall of France, will attract division among the general pub, highly sensitivo lic, and certainly there is some They love each other, and their Mr Wheatley's admirers. It is such division in the present re- love fans the flame of social all rather naive, although no- vlower, who finds that the sec- passion; intensifies their desire thing in the book is as disarm- ond reading of a Morgan novel to carve out a better world. ing as the author's apology for is unfailingly better than the first. Of how many English novelties can that be said?

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It is really Mr. Wells-in his preliminary “note." eternal youth-talking; and it is. Mr Wells talking through the "Two Foot from Heaven." By P. It seems that Morgan's novels Cambridge Don and telling the C. Wron. (Murray. 8s. 6d.) - need to be rerend to be properly disciples of Freud where they apprecinted. With "The Voy have gone off the track. For age," it is the same. If the render does not willingly and with submission enter the realm that the novelist has created, he is not your author. Accept his kingdom, and your reward is splendid.

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This story grips and stirs the emotions in the true Wren style. It shows how the life of Richard Neystoke, the charming vlcar of Little Pudding, is marred and finally blasted, not by the memory of an isolated sin of the opposition there are the boy's past, but in his complete in- Morgan's world is a kind of explosive uncle and the girl's ability at any time in his career conventional mother. There are to face up to life and accept re- spiritual world that is hard to brilliant descriptions of the verse or responsibilities. enter, but there his characters, horrors of war in Poland and always noble and simple of Finland, and the author has hard life and conditions under A further indictment of the heart, meet and talk. And to given his characters sufficient which the poor live; and a re- penetrate to that land, it is individuality to make the reader velation of how skilful psycho- necessary for the reader to be interested in their long disserta- analysis can help in the treat at heart "as a little child."

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