Some Books of the Week
(Continued from page 571.) Maurice de Pange appears to have been a very charming boy and, in The English Schooldays of a French Boy (John Lane, 3s. 6d.), we may read his letters to his parents from his private school and from Winchester. M. Andre Maurois writes a preface, and we may echo his hopes that "many English schoolboys will read these letters with pleasure : they will show them that one can belong to two different nations and yet feel in the same way, with dignity and sim- plicity." It is very interesting to see the impact of our public-school tradition upon the mind of a sensitive and clever boy belonging to one of the best French families, and for that reason alone the book is worth reading : moreover, it has a hauntingly lovable quality.
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