26 JUNE 1936, page 25

Amateurs Of Eternity

" THESE men, by the very exaggeration of their lives, stamped infinity on the imagination of the West," says Miss Waddell, introducing in an essay of great depth and beauty her......

A Mountain Of Rubbish

Six-TY years ago in New York the Theosophical Society was founded by H. P. Blavatsky and Henry S. Olcott. The first important converts of these quaint companions in India were......

Richelieu

The Cardinal Dictator. By Augusto Bally. (Cape. 15s.) FRANCE of the early seventeenth century is for us still obscured by the tarnish of false romanticism which Dumas and his......