6 OCTOBER 1944, Page 10

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I wish, indeed, that some chance would lead to the discovery of the Veronese portrait of Philip Sidney which startled Languet by its extreme "youthfulness." It may well have been that Veronese expressed on his canvas some premonition of the tremendous vitality which was about to blossom in the unknown island. I: may well have been that if Philip Sidney had not died at thirty-0". he would have become, not one of our leading statesmen, but en of our most influential writers. But the hope of half the wcrld was quenched that October afternoon three hundred and fifty ye. P. ago in the house of Mrs. Gruithuissens at Arnhem.