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'Dr. Weizmann, it's a boy!' For Chaim Weizmann and his Zionist colleague, the Romanian-born Palestinian emigre Aaron Aaron sohn, the announcement by Sir Mark Sykes of the Foreign Office--his way [...]

My specialties', George Bernard Shaw wrote in The Star as the celebrated 'Corno di Bassetto' (November 29, 1889), 'are political hypocrisy and autobiographical musical criticism.' Shaw's first paid columns, at [...]

The essay examines George Bernard Shaw's unfinished draft of a play written at the age of 21, 'Passion Play: A Dramatic Fragment.' Discussion focuses on how Shaw's lack of religious conviction informs the work.

In 1951, Henry Williamson, an ex-soldier who could never exorcize the memory of the Christmas Truce of 1914, began his fifteen-volume saga, A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight, with The Dark [...]

Sir,--Gerri Kimber's 'Zeppelin' Commentary (September 5) quotes Katherine Mansfield's wartime letter to John Middleton Murry strikingly anticipating a closing remark given by Bernard Shaw to Hesione Hushabye in Heartbreak House. [...]

Michel Pharand et al, editors BENJAMIN DISRAELI LETTERS Volume Nine: 1865-1867 533pp. University of Toronto Press. $195; distributed in the UK by NBN. 136.99 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 442645 46 [...]

Hannah Pakula's 'An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick, Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm' is an uncommon biography. It is more than a portrait of Her Royal Highness Princess Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa. It is also a biographical account of Bismarck, the man who kept unified Germany under policies that also kept her and Prince Fritz from reigning as Empress and Emperor. Pakula's book is not perfect, but it is more than just a good read: it is affective.