21 DECEMBER 1951, page 22

Two Oscars

IT is surely time that Oscar Wilde ceased to be treated either as a pathological specimen or as a noble (if heretical) martyr, a kind of modern Albigensian. What is really......

Sincerity _to Nature .

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable. By C. R. Leslie, R.A. Edited by Jonathan Mayne. (Phaidon. i zs. 6d.) CONSTABLE is one of the few famous painters about whose private life......

A Painful Story

THERE was a time when biographies were wfltten piously to com- memorate the lives of great and worthy men, or men believed to be great and worthy. Today they are sometimes......