No feature of the literary history of Europe in the last few years is more remarkable than the simultaneous appearance in Germany, France, and England of a new conception of biography. Emil Ludwig in ...
THE REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA (437 pp.) -Hector Bolitho -Macmillan($5) When Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria appeared, at the dawn of the debunking ’20s, many critics deplored its un-Victorian tone and ...