... THE GALLIC TOUCH French Authors in Form This Week --By Vernon Fane I HAVE read three detective stories this week, two of them by a Frenchman and one by an American lady, and I must say, with more honesty than chivalry, that the French product is infinitely the better. In fact, since the stories are by M. Georges Simenon it may be said that they are in a class by themselves, and almost hors ...

... 18TH- AND 19TH-CENTURY SETTINGS Fictional Themes of a Bygone Era --By Vernon Fane FASHIONS change in all things, and not least in paintings. There is no longer, I understand, a great demand for those vast pictures of puzzled, snow bound sheep, magnificently framed in gilt and scrolls that delighted the mid Victorian paterfamilias. They are relegated to lumber rooms or disused billiards rooms, ...