2 JUNE 1923, Page 19

M. Montfort's delightfully easy French is a joy to a

foreigner weary of struggling with M. Proust. As a satirist he reminds the reviewer of Miss Macaulay, but he is a great deal more besides, and his descrip- tions of Paris in that momentous fortnight before the Armistice are deeply interesting. M. Montfort is the founder and editor of a review called Les Marges, and has written various other books.