OTHER NOVELS
The Nightingale (A Life of Chopin). By Marjorie Strachey. (Longinans, Green and Co. 7s. 6d. net.)—Whether the real life of a distinguished man is happily described in the form of fiction may be questioned. The reader will be apt to consider that such a book is " neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring," and to wonder whether any of the char- acters are fictitious. After this carping criticism, it may be said that Miss Strachey has managed her material with great skill and that the volume is excellently written and thoroughly well worth reading. Perhaps the early part dealing with the little " Fry cek " at Warsaw is the most
_attractiKe„;_ but _the whole As_ a. _most interesting study. -
only thing which would have improved it from the bio- graphical point of view is the inclusion of dates. No doubt the general reader should know the dates of the birth and death of Chopin, but no doubt also even if he has known them he has forgotten.
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