Books: Magnified Obsession

HERE COMES A CANDLE—Storm Jameson—Macmillan ($2.50).

Among the English novelists who bite as well as bark, Storm Jameson is a lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone—The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness—the War killed her brother, most of her men friends)...