17 MAY 1957, page 25

New Novels

The Sponger. By Jules Renard. (Longmans, 15s.) AN inspector of fiction recently estimated that sixty-four novels of school life have been offered for sale during the past ten......

Empress Of Sorrow

DURING the latter part of the nineteenth century there were several tragic empresses living in Europe, the Empress Eugenie for instance, the Empress Carlotta of Mexico, whose......