12 APRIL 1924, Page 22

BLACKWOOD.

Fiction and travel sketches, very good of their kind, fill most of the month's issue. Captain Pitman's paper on crocodile-shooting in India is of interest, and Mr. David Hannay retells with much spirit the story of the taking of Ormuz by the English and Persians from the Portuguese in. 1622. Miss Moira O'Neill writes on Shelley, with reference to the books by Mrs. Campbell and M. Maurois, and Mr. J. A. Strahan recalls the better qualities of " Byron's biographer," Tom Moore. Mr. Strahan makes a good point when he says that the fashionable wit of the Regency period was essentially brutal, Sheridan being almost the only man whose jests would have seemed in good taste to our generation.