... IF the character of Napoleon crosses the stage during the performance of a play, or appears for a minute or two on the screen during a film, then, even if the play or the film are about totally different people, they will lose most of their life and vitality. It will leave with Napoleon s exit, and the audience will be, even if it is subconsciously, waiting for him to appear again and paying ...

... IT was Cardinal Newman's wish that anyone writing a biography of him should begin with his forty-fifth year, the year in which he was admitted into the Catholic Church, and so far the biographers have fol lowed that desire and written mainly of his life as a Catholic, beginning with the great controversy caused by his leaving the Church of England. In i8as. this steD of Newman's was ...

... THE word remote can mean far-off or distant, but it can also mean, if you press it, far-fetched or unusual, and that is the meaning that I would give to it when writing of that part of north-western Maine, where Mrs. Louise Dickinson Rich lives, and has lived for some years, in an intimate contact with nature that would appal most women as young and as attractive as she. The lakes and rivers ...

... SACHEVERELL IN HOLLAND A Robust and Penetrating Survey Sir Osbert Sitwell holds the literary stage with his auto biography, the second volume of which earned him an award for the most distinguished work of the year, and the third, just published, brought him a chorus of unanimous praise. But for originality originality-- based on an intelli gent, unfettered approach-- and for gracious prose, ...

... THE warm spring weather is certainly bringing out the new novels in a flurry of promise and, sometimes, of performance. First of all there is a work by that elegant veteran of the craft, Mr. Gil bert Frankau, who has written his first novel for some years, and one of his longest and most moving, with MICHAEL'S WIFE (Macdonald. 12s. 6d.). l'svchiatr.v and analysis and psychoanalysis have lately ...

... THE ARMOUR OF ALLURE How 14 The Perfect Lady Dressed in Victorian Days Camisoles garnished with whalebone, crescentic pads stuffed with horsehair (to throw the skirt well out over the hips) and metal busks were just a few of the dreadful ideas our Victorian ancestors perpetrated in the name of fashion. That was how we looked upon it in the '20's and '30's of this new, enlightened age; and now, ...

... THE first two volumes of Sir Osbert Sitwell's auto biography have not only re ceived almost unanimous praise from the critics, but have earned him an award for the most distinguished work of the year. Die third volume, Great Morning (Macmillan, 15s.), has, therefore, to be measured bv a very high standard, and one may as well say at once that it is as good as, if not better than, its ...