Outstanding Biographies

IN A RECENT address at the Graduate Club I spoke of our unequaled group of biographers in these words: "Strachey in Britain with his mordant irony, Brandes in Denmark with his voluminous learning and passion for the liberation of the human spirit, Papini in Italy, the hit or miss artist in black and white, Ludwig in Germany with his sense of the dramatic and skill in organizing the labor of others, Maurois in France, the biographer in water-colors and Gamaliel Bradford, the tender-hearted American Naturalist of souls." I have, now, been asked to list for the alumni two or three of the more important books of these writers, that this passing remark may be put to test. I do so gladly.

Lytton Strachey: Eminent Victorians. Putnams Queen Victoria. Harcourt, Brace

Georg Brandes: Voltaire. A. and C. Boni Creative Spirits of theNineteenth Century. Crowell

Giovanni Papini: Life of Christ. Harcourt, Brace Four and Twenty Minds. Crowell Laborers in the Vineyard. Longmans

Emil Ludwig: Napoleon. Boni and Liveright Bismarck. Little Brown Goethe. Putnams

Andre Maurois: Ariel: A Life of Sheeley. Appleton Disraeli, A Study in theVictorian Era. Appleton

Gamaliel Bradford: Damaged Souls. Houghton Mifflin Bare Souls. Harpers Lee the American.

Houghton Mifflin