13 OCTOBER 1923, page 34

A Victorian Ambassadress.*

WALDURGA LADY FACET has given us an entertaining book in her Embassies of Other Days. It should not detract from the enjoyment of her readers that the figures who crowd her......

A British Composer.* At A Very Opportune Moment Mr. John

Lane publishes a short biographical study of Mr. Frederick Delius. Delius's early life is described in detail, and a very varied story it makes, leaping gaily from wool-buying......

A Cool Fountain.*

Tina book provokes a comparison between Mr. Douglas and Mr. D. H. Lawrence. Both are rebels against what they consider in the indignation of an outraged sensibility "the......