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Professor A. F. Pollard's "Wolsey," not a biography but a series of studies, contracts Wolsey's success to that of a careerist. He met, says Mr Francis Clarke, '' the common doom of those who make 'success' their god, and know no cause in which they are prepared to fail. He could achieve no great end, because he knew no end beyond him self" ; ami this rests upon a bold passage in the book: Getting and spending, ha made waste his powers, and laid bare the poverty of his soul. His kingdom was a)) outside him. and he hod little within on which to rely. His courage did not consist in the fortitude of his mind; no great man wsb ever more pitiably dependent upon externals; and when he looked upon the travail of his soul he found no Bat : sf»ction because there was no sacrifice. His dignity consisted in his dignities, his honour in his honours, and his welfare in his wealth. Mr Walpole warns the New York "Herald-Tribune" of what is coming: "Mr Guedalla is writing an immense 'Life of Wellington'; Mr Lytton Strachey is editing the 'Memoirs of Gr<?ville'; Mr Garvin is pursuing his solitary way in search of the soul of Mr Joseph Chamberlain, and Mr Aldoua Huxley is editing the letters of the late D. H. Lawrence." „ _