SOURCE: Garnett, David. “Books in General.” New Statesman and Nation XVII, no. 420 (11 March 1939): 362.

In the following positive review, Garnett considers the short fiction in Goodbye to Berlin as a series of character portraits.

William Blake's parable in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is called A Memorable Fancy. It begins with an angel coming to him and exclaiming: “O pitiable foolish young man! O horrible! O dreadful state! consider the hot burning dungeon thou art preparing for thyself to all eternity. …” But the angel had picked the wrong man, for after they had contemplated the abyss together, Blake turned the tables by saying: “Now that we have seen my eternal lot, shall I show you yours?” and, to the angel's discomfiture, revealed a spectacle of chained baboons which first coupled with, and then devoured, each other. “So the angel said: ‘Thy phantasy has imposed on me, and thou...