2 FEBRUARY 1934, page 26

Piano And Politics

' 18s.) PADEREWSKI is the spoilt child of fortune. He has been an acknowledged master of two arts, music and politics; and— since it is, perhaps, easier to give up two careers......

The Napoleonic State

M. MADELIN'S technique is that of a man writing contem- porary history. Events occur and the observations of spectators are left not so much to speak for, as to fight it out......