21 APRIL 1950, page 28

King's Carver And Poet

DIPLOMAT, courtier and Carver to King Charles I, Thomas Carew is known today as the author of two or three exquisite lyrics (" He that loves a rosy cheek " and " Ask me no_ more......

For Wagneromanes

Wagner Nights. By Ernest Newman. (Putnam. 3Es.) HERE is a monumental work, of erudition and appreciation, rather than of criticism, which ensures to the • English-speaking world......

New Novels

The Baroness. By Leonhard Frank. (Peter Neva 75. 6d.) "Thoughts on the recent school of novel writers. They forget in their insistence on life, and nothing but life, in a plain......