Shorter notices
The World of Rembrandt Robert Wallace (Time Life Books £3)
A series of essays, richly Illustrated with colour and black-and-white reproductions, on such topics as Rembrandt's portraiture, his drawings, his relationship to contemporary artists and to Dutch society. Robert Wallace, a general writer on art and civilization (with Seymour Slive as his consultant) tries to dispel some of the popular misconceptions about Rembrandt's life and fortunes. This book should prove an attrac tive introduction to his art. C.G.
The Old Time Stars' Book of Monologues (Wolfe £3.00)
A collection of monologues published by Reynolds Music, and straight from the music halls. Although the most recent were published as late as 1953, these monologues, which go back to the last century, are dated and faded like old photographs. The doggerel in which they were written, and the sentiments which they propounded, reached the acme of their kind in Milton Hayes' and Cuthbert Clarke's 'The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God ' (1911). This, like most anthologies, is a book not to be read through but to be picked up when you have nothing better to do. Also recommended for lavatory libraries. G.G.
Sea Power in the Mediterranean S. W. C. Pack (Arthur Barker £3.00)
An account of the struggle for power in the Mediterranean, from the Wars of the Spanish Succession at the end of the seventeenth century to the ' Soviet Challenge ' of the present day, with special emphasis on the part played by the Royal Navy. There is a straightforward narrative of the main phases of naval warfare, of a clear if rather conventional kind, with a num ber of maps and photographs. C.G.
Correction The review of Christopher Hill's Antichrist in Seventeenth Century England in last week's isue was by Professor J. R. Jones.
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