2 NOVEMBER 1929, page 24

Lord D'abernon's Diary

THE second volume of Lord D'Abernon's diary has the high merit of the first. In a way it is even more illuminating, as it deals with a period for which there were no leading......

Ordeal By Fire Further Letters By Vincent Van Gogh. Written

to his Brother, 1886-89. (Constable. 31s. 6d.) THESE letters make painful but heroic reading. They should not be given to the Philistine, for they would afford him too gloating......