10 AUGUST 1912, Page 23

Martin Harvey : Some Pages of his Life. By George

Edgar. (Grant Richards. 7s. 6d. net.)—Admirers of Mr. Harvey's art will be glad of this volume, which tells the story of his difficulties and his successes. A "foreword" is provided by M. Maeterlinck, who found in Mr. Harvey a complete realization of his ideal Pelleas. "It was in the middle of the first act," he says, "when Harvey as Pelleas advanced slowly upon tho scene, pale and marked by fate with mortal beauty, like a sort of pre- Renaissance Florentine Hamlet, that I heard in the very depthi of my heart the secret but all-powerful cry of that mysterious voice which seems to come from a region beyond the human, and which only sounds at the great moments of existence."