30 JUNE 1923, Page 22

Princesses, Dames et Aventurieres du Regne de Louis XIV. By

Madame Louis Latour. (Eugene Eiguiere. 15s. 6d.) These lectures, which have delighted various London drawing-rooms for years, though they gain in scholarship and fact by being committed to paper, lose much of the charm and verve lent them by Madame Latour's beautiful diction.