24 JANUARY 1947, page 22

Matters Of Literature

WHAT do you "follow " when you engage in the discipline of letters? Any professor of English must ask himself that question again and again, and no very certain answer is......

Cinderella At St. Cloud

A Distant Summer (Queen Victoria in the Paris of Napoleon III.) By Edith Saunders. (Sampson Low. 15s.) "THE Queen's entrance into Paris was a most melancholy failure," Lord......

La Belle Alliance

The Cause of Liberty. By Stephen Bonsai. (Michael Joseph. 15s.) COLONEL BONSAL'S book is in a double sense a work of piety. It recalls a very important and decidedly neglected......