Mr. Aldous Huxley's Persiflage "Morvan Coms.? By Aldous Husley.
Chatto and Windus. 6s. net.
Mr, Aldous Huxley has followed his amusing ''"Crome Yellow" with a book of five stories, which many readers wil find more amusing still, It haS been said of "Crome Yellow" that it bears too much the air of a magazine for circulation among friends. "Mortal Coils" has a more professional air, though Mr, Huxley seldom lets himself—scems, indeed, never. to wish to let himself—lose his own identity in the telling of the story. He has not the selflessness of Miss Katherine Mansfield—the selflessness that may, for all we know, be the highest form of self-expression in art, as it is said to be in' religion. Consequently, it is not often that Mr. Huxley lets us he carried away by our emotions. He keeps us standing on the edge, an directs our attention to what is taking place in the tumult, sometimes with a wave of his hand, sometimes with a nudge.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.