The moonstruck madness and learned gayety which so appealed to readers of Mr. White's "The Sword in the Stone" comes bubbling along just as merrily in ["The Witch in the Wood"]. What with the presence of old Merlyn, who remembers the future as well as the past, and the author's own habit of making time perfectly elastic, the adventures of Queen Morgause set down here assume a peculiarly sprightly air. Alone in her northern fortress, she takes a complicated beauty-bath and plans details of the role in which she will next dramatize herself. Shall it be the brave devoted little mother? Her ministrations to her children always confuse and sometimes terrify them. Or shall she decide to vamp a visiting knight? Whatever she elects, one may be sure that she alone will have a wonderful time, but hardly any one else will escape trouble. It is with considerable...