... WITH IRELAND REVISITED (Hutchinson. 16s.) Mr. Charles Graves gives us what amounts to a chronicle of delights. From the first steak in Dublin, to the last bowl of cream or glass of good sherry, Mr. Graves writes with the enthusiasm of the born gour met, as well as with the perti nacity of the born fact-finder. With his wife he recently motored 2,000 miles round and about in Eire, observing, ...

... ALTHOUGH he is known in this country as the author of Adolphe, a work which took him fifteen days out of a lifetime of sixty- three years, very little is known or recognised about the career or the character of BENJAMIN CONSTANT (Con stable. 18s.), and Mr. Harold Nicolson has admirably re paired this gap in our knowledge, or has at least given the opportunity for repairing it, in his ...

... TRUE courage, wrote La Rochefoucauld, is to do without witnesses every thing that one is capable of doing before all the world. In prisons throughout France, including the redoubtable Fresnes, in Ravensbruck con centration camp, and in a house in the elegant Avenue Foch in Paris, Mrs. Peter Churchill, then Odette Sansom, was to bear out the truth of those words from the day in April 1943, ...

... ANTIQUE DIVERSIONS An Important New Volume for the Collector Those treasures which Mrs. Malaprop called articles of bigotry and virtue, which are so hard to assess in the antique shop because our knowledge in the present genera tion is inclined to be lacking, provide the subject of an excellent new volume by G. Bernard Hughes entitled COLLECTING ANTIQUES (Country Life. £2 2s.). In his twenty ...

... THE first three volumes of Sir Osbert Sitwell's auto biography have earned for him not only a wide popularity, the encomiums of the critics, the accolade of the selection com mittee of the Book Society, but a comfortable literary award as well. A considerable public will, therefore, be awaiting Laughter in the Next Room (Macmillan. 18s.), which is the fourth and latest volume, and in which, ...

... . A New Romantic Anthology (The Grey Walls Press. 10s. 6d.), compiled by Stefan Schiman- slci and Henry Treece, covers the romantic revival in writing, during the war years, and includes an essav on Romanticism bv Herbert Read, as well as contributions by a number of distinguished writers. The animals and plants which inhabit our sea shores provide material for a fascinating hook by Professor ...