THE WIDE NET Eudora Welty Harcourt, Brace ($2.50).
These eight stories about the South present as perplexing and exasperating a mixture of good and bad as U.S. writing can show. In her first volume (A Curtain of Green TIME, Nov. 24, 1941), Miss Welty used gifts for original comedy, satire and characterization which, judging by this book (her third), might as well have belonged to somebody else. At her best, 34-year-old Miss Welty runs a photofinish with the finest prose artists of her time and displays a delicateness of sensibility which...
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