29 JANUARY 1916, Page 37

Stendhal's famous work De 'Arnour has just been translated into

English under the title On Love, by Mr. Philip Woolf and Mr. Cecil Woolf (Duckworth and Co., 7s. 6d. net). The book is carefully edited with an introduction and notes and the trans- lation is satisfactory, though it is a little hard to believe that there are many readers wbo would not prefer the French ct iginaL