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ENCOUNTERS AND DIVERSIONS. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 6s. net.) ENCOUNTERS AND DIVERSIONS. By E. V. Lucas. (Methuen. 6s. net.) We look at Mr. Lucas's new book and see to our astonish- ment that he has published over sixty volumes ; and we can hardly take him to task for overproduction, since everything he writes gains an eager reception. But this collection of essays from Punch and other periodicals certainly seems a little thin between " cloth-boards " ; one by one, they would soothe us into a gentle, thoughtless, after-dinner good humour ; one after another, they keep us in an irritable expectation that something really good must be coming soon. There is truth and whimsy in his observation—when, for example, in his Continental Dictiottary he observes of Wives : "Wives are useful on the Continent because they learnt French and Italian and German at school, and their husbands didn't." We wish, though, that Mr. Lucas would pause longer before adding more volumes to his already surprising total.
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