10 AUGUST 1929, page 23

Fiction

Below the Surface Tim pleasure of the reader of modern studies in the fantasia of consciousness is the pleasure of the diver. But it has the diver's limitations ; the time spent......

The Magazines

IN the Nineteenth Century and After a phenomenon is observable to which a parallel may be seen in almost any of the Opposition periodicals to-day. Lieut.-Colonel Stewart L.......

A Great Sculptor

Alfred Gilbert. By Isabel McAllister. With forty plates in photogravure. (A. and C. Black. £2 2s.) Tins is not a critical biography, but rather an essay in hero- worship. The......

Some Intimate Memoirs

THE Princess Victoria of Prussia, sister of the ex-Kaiser William II. and grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, has written a most readable book. My Memoirs amble pleasantly along......