19 SEPTEMBER 1931, page 23

Michael Faraday

IT is an odd thing that Michael Faraday, whose single-minded devotion to the search after scientific knowledge for its own sake has led to the manifold applications of......

Julie De Lespinasse

The Double Heart : A Study of Julie de Lespinasse. By Naomi Royde Smith. (Hamish Hamilton. 10s. 6c1.) " FEW women need to be loved " observed Julie de Lespinasse, " most of them......

A Most Handsome Compliment

Music at Night, and Other Essays. By Aldous Huxley. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d.) " I HAVE," says Mr. Huxley, near the beginning of Those Personal Touches, " in the course of a......