10 MARCH 1917, Page 18

Men of Letters. By Dixon Scott. (Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.

net.)— 'These essays on contemporary writers by a clever young journalist who died prematurely' in Gallipoli are well worth reading. As- Mr. Max Beerbohm says in his appreciative introduction, they suffer at times from an excess of vigour, but Dixon Scott's humorous, dogmatic, para- doxical papers on Mr. Shaw, Mr. Kipling, Sir James Barrie, Henry' James, and Mr. Arnold Bennett are distinctly entertaining. "