André Maurois, apostle of bon sens and professional lover of England, has a new book, “The Edwardian Era,” published by Appleton-Century and admirably translated by Hamish Miles. It is not a biography ...

Andre Maurois, well known French writer and author of the new biography of Disraeli, is of Jewish origin, according to a statement he made in response to a question of the “London Jewish Chronicle.” ...

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 ...

SIR WALTER SCOTT, HIS LIFE & PERSONALITY (295 pp.)—Hesketh Pearson—Harper ($4). ALEXANDRE DUMAS, A GREAT LIFE IN BRIEF (198 pp.)—André Maurois—Knopf ($2.50). The two writers were as different as ...

In association with AbeBooks.co.uk, Tim Martin begins a new series on the A to Z of forgotten books. This week, he recalls Ariel, a 'romance biography' of the poet Percy Shelley and the first volume ...

The French Review is the official journal of the American Association of Teachers of French and has the largest circulation of any scholarly journal of French studies in the world. The Review ...

THE TITANS (508 pp.)—Andrè Maurois —Harper ($5.95). After writing bushels of novels, Alexandre Dumas felt a need for fresh material. He started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with ...