SOURCE: "Stories to Remember," in New York Times Book Review, December 1, 1946, pp. 9, 72.

In the following review of Thirty Stories, Mirrielees praises the collection, citing the French section as the best.

This most recent of Kay Boyle's short-story collections offers only fact in its title. In the book will be found thirty stories; it is left to the reader to supply any more colorful designation. And Kay Boyle is a writer who can afford to leave it to the reader. Whatever judgment may be passed on her novels, each of her short-story collections thus far has enlarged her following. The present one can hardly fall to do the same.

The present volume is a garnering from "far over a hundred stories, published and unpublished," of the last twenty years. Familiar titles, therefore, are scattered freely along the title page. "The White Horses of Vienna," "Rest Cure," "Defeat," "Winter Night...