5 MARCH 1948, page 20

Dr. Joad On Decadence •

A REVIEWER of a book by Dr. Joad is now in the position of a jury- man at the Assizes who is already familiar with the defendant and thinks he knows, the case from having read......

J.l.g.

J. L. Garvin : a Memoir. By Katharine Garvin. (Heinemann. 12s. 6d.) GARVIN has been dead little more than a year ; it is far too soon to allot him his final place in British......

Master Of Northern Baroque

The Sketches of Rubens. By Leo van Puyvelde. (Kegan Paul. 42s.) THIS book, which first appeared in French eight years ago, seems to have originated in the important exhibition......