This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. Through its pages, by way of interior drama, there runs some thread of connection with the Tales of Hoffmann. The same characters are invoked, but the larger frame or drama in which they appear from time to time and play their part gives the title to The Hunters and the Hunted. Under these influences and with Mr. Sitwell for guide we wander through the palace of the Byzantine Emperors and to the enchanted castles of the Middle Ages, and so, by way of Thuringian forests, to the Hunts of Maximilian, and, still in tapestry, to the Royal Hunt of Louis Quinze. The scene now changes, as in the old opera, and we are in the “blue ” and “rose ” periods of Picasso, paintings that have evidently a particular appeal for Mr. Sitwell.