... BOOKS-- Scott a Literary God History from the Roman Viewpoint A Society Menagerie Radclyffe Hall Disappoints Three Unmemorable Novels By CECIL ROBERTS The vogue of biography continues, and the acid test applied by Lytton Strachey with such success is still popular. It happens that this week we have three biographies which revert to the old style of enthusiastic treatment. That is, they are all ...

... SHORTER NOTICES OF RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS Rambles in Cornwall, by J. H. Wade. (Methuen. 7s. 6d. net.)-- This work tells one everything about the Duchy-- history, geo graphy, architecture-- but the strangeness of the southernmost county is regrettably absent from the pages. That alien quality which characterises the Celtic remains-- Welsh, Breton, Gaelic, Cornish-- is submerged in interesting ...

... THE WORLD OF BOOKS: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre A Firsf-rate Adventure Story A War Correspondent's Account of the Foreign Legion A Publisher's Reminiscences Reviewed by V ernon Fane I GATHER from Messrs. Chatto and Windus that Herr B. Traven has a considerable inter national reputation, and that the novel to which I am about to direct your atten tion has already been published i five ...

... . Shorter Notices of Recently Published Books Three Englishwomen in America, by Dame Una Pope-Hennessey. (Benn. 15s. net.)-- This remark able study of three outstanding personalities-- Fanny Trollope, Fanny Kemble, and Harriet Martineau-- has been written by the wife of an attaché to the British Embassy in Washington. The period of which Dame Una deals is approximately that of a century ago, ...

... By CECIL ROBERTS Why Mr. Somerset Maugham, the High Priest of Cynicism, Prefers to be a Novelist Rather than a Dramatist: A Wine Connoisseur Tells Us What We Should Know Mrs. R. M. Hopkinson Attempts to Defend Queen Anne's Reputation Happy Retrospect, Count Wilczek's Portrait of a Wealthy Aristocrat of the Francis-Joseph Regime in Austria In the preface to the final volume of the handsome ...

... Benh am's Book of Quotations Otudents, public speakers, writers, and all lovers of O literature have need at varying times of a book of quotations and it must be regarded, indeed, as an essential work of reference without which no library is complete. Of publications in this category pride of place falls to Benham's which Messrs Ward Lock and Co., Ltd., have just issued in an enlarged and ...

... Memories of Peace and War Autobiography in Diverse Mediums The New Thornton Wilder It is always a question whether an artist should go on doing better and better what lie already does well, or whether he should explore new avenues in himself and in his art. If he chooses the first alternative, he can always say, with justice, that his song, like a bird's, is more and not less beautiful for ...

... CLASSICS of PEACE and WAR Sir George MacMunn 7 horn as Mann Frank Harris and J. B. Priestley Produce Four Notable Volumes Reviewed by CECIL ROBERTS It became evident on p. 2 of Behind the Scenes in Many Wars (Murray. 15s.) that its author, Lieut. -General Sir George MacMunn, knows how to write as well as to fight. Here is a book of reminiscences of a man who has a wonderful story to tell, and ...

... BOOKS Mr. Beverley Nichols makes his Appearance as a Pas sionate Pacifist Thug Suppressing the Religion of Murder in India By CECIL ROBERTS It would seem that we are still doubtful about Queen Victoria. Was she a great Queen, or a great nuisance, or both? Every year some industrious writer examines her correspondence, or the corre spondence of her relations or her Ministers, and according to ...

... I A \I m Two Detective Plays Without a Mystery Between Them The Passing of T j a Great Comedian Opera The Ageless Pinero By PHILIP PAGE One should be grateful to Mr. Van Druten for having written what one must, I suppose, call a detective play without worrying who committed the murder and without letting his audience worry either. For it is not in the precision of its detective work that the ...

... Books By CECIL ROBERTS The figure of Paderewski is that of the last of the romantics. He does not quite belong to this age, and for the last ten years he has been legen dary. Was he a great pianist? asks the new generation. The concert hall frenzy, the hysterical women, the tearful men, the crowds at the hall doors, the worshippers waiting in the vestibule of the hotel, the great lorry with ...

... Airs. Aslor's Horse Reveals Some of the More Ebullient Extravagances of (fie American Scene A. F. Tschilfely Leaves the Wild Tracks of the Andes for the Bridle-paths of England Reviewed, by VERNON FANE MR. Stanley Walker is a distinguished American journalist who was once city editor of the New York Herald- Tribune, went on to one of the tabloid papers to see what it was all about, and is now ...