... , STEFAN ZWEIG, ace biographer of Marie Antoinette s and Mary Stuart, took his life in Brazil, the refugee secretary whom he had married dying with him a tragic s ending to an illustrious career. In Stefan Zweig (W. H. Allen, 12s. 6d.) his first wife, Friderike, tells the S story of their romantic love when she was already a wife and mother, marriage and their Salzburg mountain home where he ...

... 44 Winged Dagrgrer 44 Siill Glides the Stream The Widow's House 44 Bog: Blossom Stories Elizabeth Betvens Bamett Freedman is the subject of one of the latest volumes in the series English Masters of Black-and-White, published by Art and Technics at 8s. 6d. Jonathan Mayne tells the story of this fine illustrator and war artist, who achieved success after years of illness and difficulties, and ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REV 'lEWER'S CHOICE THE HARP IN THE SOUTH. By Ruth Park. (Michael Joseph 9s. 6 d.) WITH AND WITHOUT TEARS. By L. Steni. (i Falcon Press 8s. 6d.) NEVER AGAIN. By Francis King. (Home and Van Thai 9s. 6 d.) THE STREAM OF DAYS. By Taha Hussein. (Longmans Green 8s. 6d.) THE HARP IN THE SOUTH.-- Most novels which have had Australian backgrounds have been so ...

... Cb f 1&L- The Paragon' Fortune Anthony Cookman with Tom Tit I IT is a relief occasionally to exchange life as the serious dramatist sees it-- a thing of complicated cross-lights, dim distinctions, disconcerting anti-climaxes, ob viously as puzzling to him as to us-- for something simpler, for life as it is in the more exciting pages of a magazine of fiction. It is out ol this kind ol life ...

... Elizabeth Hewens OUR friend Sabretache gives us, in Monarchy and the Chase (Eyre and Spottiswoode; 16s), a book of first-rate originality as to angle, and full of matter. In fact, a re-reading of British history from the point of view of the hunting field. What could not but be ingenious and entertaining has em bodied, also, the fruits of solid research: many lesser-known aspects of Royal ...

... BOB'S YOUR UNCLE (Saville), a musical farce, restores Leslie Henson to our stage, and at the foaming crest of his form. Few of us have been lucky enough to watch a blend of owl, cod and wagtail learning, by trial and error, how not to deal with a seidlitz powder. It is possible now to see this exhibition nightly (and on two afternoons a week) at the Saville and Mr. Henson has other agreeably ...

... 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 ...

... OUR BOOKSHELF Rupert Croft-Cooke OUR REVIEWER'S CHOICE THE MILITARY ORCHID.-- Someone is bound to say of this captivating book that the writing itself has an orchidaceous quality, and the criticism will be nearly true. At times there is a liveliness of colouring, a feathery and exotic delicacy in Mr. Brooke's prose, which might have come from long contemplation of the flowers he loves. JLne ...

... (Mr ILl^ ^t^ruMAjL- Anthony Cookman with Tom Titt Bob's Your Uncle Saville J IT would be ridiculous to do badly in 1948 what had already been done superlatively well in 1819. In describing Munden, Lamb, with prophetic eye, described Mr. Leslie Henson. When you think that he has exhausted his battery of looks, in unaccountable warfare with your gravity, suddenly he sprouts out an entirely new ...

... 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, ...