... PICASSO Through the Eyes of His Friend Jaime Sabartes Pablo Ruiz Picasso, born at Malaga in 1881, the son of Basque parents, ranks with Cézanne as a supreme innovator. He has been an originator and leader of most of the new departures in painting since 1910. His art has passed through many phases. There are the lovely, if senti mental, paintings of his Blue Period of 1901-04; the Rose period ...

... THE life of Sir Michael Sadler, by his son, is a model of what a good biography ought to be. Even so, in a foreword, Mr. Michael Sadleir disclaims that it is a biography in the accepted sense, and goes on to say there were immense tracts of his experience, intellectual and spiritual, which were either un known to me or beyond my comprehension. But where, we may ask, is the biography to be ...

... IT is not the easiest of tasks to write about a man during his life-time. More especially if he is, at the moment, holding high public office. THE BIOGRAPHY OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS (Heine mann. 21s.) is by an American, Mr. Eric Estorick, who makes up in industriousness what he may lack in verve. A biographer, of course, should take a positive line, and Mr. Estorick's is a clear and unequivocal ...

... FROM England, America and Russia-via-America come this week's impressive collection of novels, most of which deal with our own times, or times within living memory, even if their themes are not familiar in our own experience. Mr. Christo pher Morley, for instance, has written of an endearing and at the same time exasDeratine character, his own version of Everyman, in The Man Who Made Friends ...

... DURING three years as a prisoner of the Japanese, Mr. Graham Hough read and re read the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats, and brought to their analytical study an intensity of concentration that must have been valuable to him at the time, and which has now resulted in THE LAST ROMANTICS (Duck worth. 15s.), a critical and thoughtful book of quite unusual merit. Among the poems, Mr. Hough had ...