Books: Prose for Convalescents

THE HUNTERS AND THE HUNTED (314 pp.)—Sacheverell Sitwell—Macmillan ($4).

"It takes so little to be happy. . . . Now all I would wish, in this winter of the spirit, is to fall asleep and wake up in a luxury of light and warmth; not to have every morsel of coal dragged unwillingly from the bowels of the coal mine; not to have all food weighed and balanced up in calories, with so many million deaths anticipated, calmly, from cold and starvation; but to pass on to the light and warmth of life. ....

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