12 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 29

' We are delighted to be able to draw our

readers' attention to the twelfth impression of Dr. Axel Munthe's The Story of San Michele (John Murray, 16s.). There is no need to review again this beautiful book, to which the author has appended a new preface explaining what he himself conceives this book to be—neither autobiography nor the rather pompously sounding " memoirs of a doctor," but a story of dynamic life.