Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents various books. "All Passion Spent," by V. Sackville-West, is a careful, slow-moving, intricately written story of Lady Slane's desire to live out calmly, passively the few years left to her of her frustrated, over-managed life contrives to produce a certain glow of pleasure in the reader in spite of the fact that the writing seems at times too self-conscious, too unnecessarily deliberate. "Poetry in France and England," by Jean Stewart, is the fifteenth volume of the Hogarth Lectures, which presents literature "as dynamic rather than static," is one of the most illuminating and timely in the entire series. "Henry Irving," by Gordon Craig, tells that because John Henry Brodribb of Somerset and Cornwall had the devil in him, he became Henry Irving; it was le diable au corps that transformed a potential farmer into "the greatest actor of his time."