24 FEBRUARY 1923, page 20

Crabb Robinson.*

IT seems an easy way to fame, to know most of the celebrities of the day and to keep a diary. It is probably the most difficult. Celebrities, as acquaintances, are in danger of......

Laughter From A Cloud.* Laughter From A Cloud Is Such

a very charming book partly because in it we have been allowed to see Sir Walter Raleigh at his worst. The little plays in it are almost bad, almost commonplace, some of the......

Fenimore Cooper's Letters.*

SHORTLY before his death James Fenimore Cooper told his daughter that he wished his family not to authorize the publication of any biography. Acting on this request, his eldest......