We have all talked a great deal about Warsaw in
the last few weeks, but not many of us have much conception of the city's appearance or of its history. Mr. Rothay Reynolds given us plenty of information on both these points in his Story Of Warsaw (Hutchinson and Co., is. net), which is well illustrated with photographs. He is perhaps over-enthusiastio about the 'splendours of the town, and most English visitors will hardly escape a feeling of depression at the squalid and poverty- stricken appearance of the Jews who form so largo a propor- tion of the population. But we can all agree with him upon the beauty of much of the eighteenth-century architecture, and particularly of the Lazienki Palace with its gardens and lake. There, too, is the lovely open-air "Roman" Theatre, whose stage is built upon an island in the lake, so that swans may float majestically past along the strip of water that separates the audience from the actors.
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