Ambition in Love's Clothing.

The article focuses on the book "La Vie amoureuse de Madame de Pompadour," by Par Marcelle Tinayre. The book is well done, of course. Everything of Tinayre's has been well done. Marcelle Tinayre has a gentle, unpretentious, serious and incredibly nimble way about her, which again justifies somebody's remark to the effect that no one ever writes better than a Frenchman except a French woman. Here is certainly the pleasantest book about Madame de Pompadour. Readers are inclined to believe, even, that the author's intuition, in default of new information, has given at some points, a truer and subtler picture of the strangely strong and secret soul than people have found anywhere else.