The New Review November 1936

The publisher in his blurb refers to a mystic side to the story and to the suggestion in it of a need for reform in the present divorce laws but the lady in the book does not appear to need even the moderate facilities afforded by the Divorce Law as it is at present. [...] Few religious realize the endless420 THE NEW REVIEW worry about money and ways-and-means endured by the average layman and his lack of quiet his life among trains and motors and typewriters among bills and ilnesses and competition his need of recreation and peace and the easiness of obtaining the wrong sort of either and the difficulty of finding the right kind. [...] There seems to be a wide field for work of this type ; to reveal existing markets to open up fresh avenues to develop new sources of supply and to turn to the advantage not only of the railway but also of the country any abnormal happening is to be commercial in the best sense of the word ! When one considers the enormous amount of capital that has been sunk in the railways one is not surprise [...] For instance the demand for governmental help for the Indian Mercantile Marine conflicts with the aims of the Railway and Road interests ; the 'private' ownership of the Kathiawar Railways and the conflicting interests of the various Government and Port administrations provide a further complication. [...] The point is that the struggle for supremacy is going to be relentless and long and the railway as representing the biggest and the most necessary transport undertaking has to be on the qui vive all the time to withstand and beat off its rivals.