22 DECEMBER 1923, page 18

The Making Of Italy.* This Book Has Appeared At A

most opportune moment. Italy is passing through a crisis of which we English, to judge by the comments in our newspapers, fail entirely to grasp the significance. It is to be......

Fiction:

ANTIC HAY.* Pr is a more grateful task to praise Mr. Huxley than not to praise him. For our sakes he has ransacked the ages and despoiled the climes ; he has made us familiar......

Bakst.*

Tins magnificent volume is not quite in the usual picture- book tradition. The reproductions of Bakst's drawings and colour work are splendid, the binding and paper sumptuous,......