Point of No Return

Point of No Return As I Remember It: Some Epilogues in Recollection, by James Branch Cabell.

pp. New York: The McBride Company. $3.75 Here in his own style, perhaps a little more mannered and intricate than of old, but retaining all the charms of unfailing urbanity and compassionate irony, the creator of the timeless world of Poictesme writes with graceful candor of his wives, his lit- erary friends, and his own career. — With the serene detachment that dis- tinguishes his romances and may make of them the most enduring lit- erary monument erected by an Amer- ican in this century, Cabell remarks in passing that this is probably the last book that he will live to complete. If that is so, the reader will in these pages take leave of a great artist and a gallant gentleman. _-R.P.O.