THE fortnightly talks by Mr. Desmond McCarthy , the B.B.C.'s literary critic, have proved so popular that it has been decided to extend the time given to notices of books. Mr. McCarthy, in his talks, has no time to deal adequately with new novels, so in future Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton (who is equally well known as a novelist and as an economist, in which latter capacity she was a member of the Balfour Committee on British Trade and Industry) will relieve him of this part of the task. Fiction-fiends should now postpone the composition of their library lists until they have heard her review.