The True Storv of My Life. By Alice M. Diehl.
(John Lane. 109. ed. Oct.)." Don't bo too reticent" is the advice sometimes given to the man who proposes to give his recollections to the world. It is certainly the principle on which Mrs. Diehl has acted. There are times when we fancy that we have found our *ay into a "Palace of Truth." 'or the most part she is suffi- ciently kindly in her notices of events and people. Sometimes, however, it would have been better for her to have held her hand, when, for instance, she tells us about the stormy period of her marriage. The most attractive part of this "True Story" is the narrative of the Paris debut, illustrated as it is with pen- piettires of some notable inhabitants of the musical world. Towards the end of the Volume we pass from muSic to literature. Mrs. Diehl has a facile pen—the autobiography shows us as Much—but we own to having felt something like amazement at reading that one firm had sixteen unpublished novels from her hand.
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