Books: The Weekly Reviews

John Farrar Compliments Them All

Literary reviews crowd the horizon. One sun sets as another rises. What of the three chief holders of the present sky: Books (issued as a Sunday supplement by The New York Herald Tribune), The Saturday Review (TIME'S own) and The Literary Review (issued as a Saturday supplement by The New York Evening Post) ? I read all three and consider it a necessary part of my education. All three have their merits.

The Literary Review of Editor W. Orton Tewson follows somewhat in the footsteps of Arthur Maurice's...

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