Mr. Aldington's translation of Candide (Lane, 21s.) is lucid and
witty and preceded by an extremely good introduction, describing the philosophical origins of Candide and relating the brilliant rocket of Voltaire's satire to those pro- found questions it never asked, as well as to the pro- found ones it asked but never answered. The illustrator, Mr. Tealby, has a talent for using space which rivals that of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who boasted he could fit a town into an extra eighth of an inch of page. Mr. Tealby draws the entire life story of the Old Woman on one page. When he illustrates how "with the aid of medicine Candide's illness became serious" he does not omit a single person among the "two doctors he had not asked for, several intimate friends 'who would not leave him, and two devotees who kept making him broth," and includes in his generosity five bowls of broth.
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