... Joan of Arc and the Recovery of France A Crowd is Xot Company 6 Prince Leopold and Anna Elizabeth Bewens THE Teach Yourself History Series is being edited by A. L. Rowse: allied with such a name it makes a propitious start. Evidently-- and what an excellent thing!-- the gulf between the specialist and the public is narrowing. What can be popular is no longer in disrepute. In this case, ...

... 44 Silver Wedding: 44 The Last Pre-Raphaelite An Attic in Jervuyn Street Elizabeth Bewehs Richard JefTeries is being handsomely com memorated in a uniform edition of his works published by the Lutterworth Press, the second volume of which. Field and Hedgerow (10s. 6d.), consisting of Jefferies' last essays, has just been published. As the editor, Mr. Samuel J. Looker, says, The bulk of the ...

... . Edited by Sir James Marchant. (Odhams ios. 6d.) Professor Gilbert Murray has written the Introduction to this collection of wise and readable essays by elderly men distinguished in various professions. Dean Inge, Bertrand Russell, Bernard Darwin, Sir Seymour Hicks, rather Martindale and Admiral of the Fleet I°rd Chatfield are a few of the twenty-five contributors. Scarcely one who has not ...

... . By Ruari McLean, Sir John Tenniel. By Frances Sarzano. Richard Doyle. By Daria Hambourg. (Art and Technics 8s. 6d. each.) The first three volumes in a series English Masters of Black-and-White. Each has an able commentary on the artist's life and work, and each is quite prodigally illustrated. ...

... . By John Brophy. (Harrap 15s.) The fortunate publisher, reads the blurb, has no need to write up John Brophy. This reviewer is no less fortunate. BOOKS IN BRIEF. ...

... . By Mariorie Coryn. (Hodder and Stoughton 9s. 6d.) Napoleonic episodes in the form of a novel. Talleyrand and Barras as characters. Napoleon apostrophises Ah, women Women There 's 110 keeping them out of anything. But the dialogue isn't all as silly as that. ...

... . By Freda Derrick. (Chapman and Hall 9s. 6d.) A fascinating subject dealt with by a writer who introduces whimsical bits of autobiography. The illustrations are more informative than the text. ...

... (Mr tfcu A New Stratford Festival Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt COMPLAINT has been made that Stratford should have opened its summer-long festival with King John-- a history which readers excusably find tedious. Sir Barry Jackson, whose directorship regrettably ends with the new season, in this matter, as in some other, knows better than his critics what purposes the festival should serve. It ...

... OJt iis^ Dark Eyes (Strand) Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt THE three Russian bal lerinas are enchanting company. They really refresh the old joke of the comic foreigner. Not only are they as picturesquely absurd as Slavs should be according to our ideas, but their absurdity springs from something recognizably and enviably human a superb zest for life. It is absurdity touched by a kind of wild ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE QUENCH THE MOON. By Walter Macken. (Macmillan 10s. 6 d.) THE FOUNDLING. By Georgette Heyer. (Heinemann 10s. 6 d.) MAN RUNNING. By Selwyn Jepson. (Macdonald 9s. 6 d.) PORTRAIT OF WILLIAM MORRIS. By Esther Meynell. Chapman and Hall 15s.) QUENCH THE MOON.-- I never start reading a new novel of Irish life without a certain excitement, for so ...

... JUST 100 years ago, the com poser, Mendelssohn, died. He was only thirty-eight, very happily married, and had said of himself that My work is a supreme pleasure. At the age of twelve he had already shown himself a fine musician, had composed a certain amount and had written down his compositions in a clear and mature hand. Mendelssohn was a happy man; it was not until after his death that he ...

... THIS week's most attractive and most rewarding book is also one of its briefest: FIN DE SIÈCLE (Allan Wingate. 10s. 6d.). It is a thin and elegant little book, as thin and elegant as the Aubrey Beardsley ladies who decorate its wrap per, and it is a selection of nineteenth-century literature and art, chosen by Mr. Nevile Wallis. Mr. Holbrook Jackson has contributed A Note on the Period, and ...