13 JANUARY 1923, page 23

Madame De Maintenon.* It Is An Old Story That Paul

Scarron, the crippled poet, pro- phesied an enduring name for Francoise d'Aubigne when by marrying her he saved her from a convent. The notary asking him, according to form,......

Belief In Christ.* This Is The Second Volume Of A

treatise on the Reconstruction of Belief ; the first, Belief in God, was reviewed in the Spectator of December 24th, 1921. Both reflect the author's curiously double......