Books: Mr. Hazard's Maggot

MR. HODGE AND MR. HAZARD—Elinor Wylie—Knopf ($2.50). "When Mr. Hazard was forty years old, he decided to revisit England. . . ." Arriving there, he proceeded immediately to have an attack of influenza, during the course of which he stalked angrily about the town of London, frightening children with his dark and troubled eyes. Then, in May, he went to Gravelow and met the Huntings, Allegra and Penserosa, daughters, and Clara, their mother. These provided him with a momentary haven from the assaults of a world which he could not completely fathom, and...