5 MARCH 1948, page 22

Fall Or Fulfilment ?

THE publishers tell us that the second volume of this study of the Spanish American Empire completes the work begun in the "Rise" which appeared a year ago. No one who reads Mr.......

Master Of Northern Baroque

The Sketches of Rubens. By Leo van Puyvelde. (Kegan Paul. 42s.) THIS book, which first appeared in French eight years ago, seems to have originated in the important exhibition......

Resistance In Berlin

RECENTLY two extremely informative books have appeared on the German resistance—the von Hassell diaries and Gisevius's To the Bitter End. About each disastrous event, and each......