This very pleasantly produced and illustrated volume
(Anna Pavlova, Cassell, 21s.) is a graceful and eloquent tribute to its subject from the person best qualified to pay it. Pavlova's business manager and husband. M. Dandre ha, the advantage of being able to quote Pavlova's actual con- versations, where other writers have for the most part been obliged to rely on hearsay or the imagination ; he dealt himself with her correspondence throughout almost the whole of her career ; arid, having accompanied her on her tours, is able to refute ninny of the picturesque legends and anecdotes with which publicists and the Press adorned the circumstances of her career. His narrative is sober and sincere, filled with incident, and pleasantly discursive. The personality of the writer is dominated, but not shackled, by the personality of the subject. M. Dandre has performed his task admirably.
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