SOURCE: "Stories to Be Long Remembered: Sylvia Townsend Warner, a Deceptively Blithe Spirit," in New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, March 23, 1947, p. 4.

In the following review, Hilton praises The Museum of Cheats, adding that, to fully enjoy the stories, "one must listen as well as read. "

Sylvia Townsend Warner, still best known as the author of Lolly Willowes and Mr. Fortune's Maggot, has collected a score or so of stories into a volume called, after prevalent fashion, from one of them, The Museum of Cheats. The title is also of a fashion: it puzzles rather than explains, incites more than invites, and in a literary world wary of face-value, it fools best by not fooling at all. Thus, in the name-story, the Museum is a real Museum and the Cheats are real Cheats. But being told that, you are no nearer to guessing what the story is...