SOURCE: "Through French Eyes," in More Prejudice, William Heinemann Ltd., 1923, pp. 206-10.

In the following excerpt, Walkley commends Morand's knowledge and depiction of London, as illustrated in Tendres Stocks.

[Today] there are French writers who appear to be thoroughly at home among us and to know England "like their pocket." And yet, even with these knowing ones, England seems to assume an unreal, exotic air. I take up a book published by the Nouvelle Revue Française—Tendres Stocks, by Paul Morand—which is a triad of short stories or studies encircling three remarkable young ladies, and I find it crammed with the intimate topography, not to mention the manners and customs, of Oxford and London. Piecing the autobiographical fragments together, you learn that the author was at an English school (where he had to do battle for the national French nightgown against his pyjama'd school-fellows), was in...