EMPIRE REVIEW.
Mr. E. V. Knox and Mr. E. V. Lucas contribute a mock Ode on the Wembley Exhibition. It is very good fun and, unlike most mockery, will help instead of hurting. Mr. Austen Chamberlain's article on the " House of Commons " is a competent description of the pervading spirit of the House, which somehow gets into the soul and the bones of every man who stays there long. Even Clydeside Socialists are affected by it and readily acknowledge that they are. The last batch of Mrs. R. L. Stevenson's letters increases our appreciation of her as a letter writer. Her letters are vigor- ous, observant and very sprightly. Her judgment, too, was good. We had not recognized before quite how much Stevenson owed to her in consultation about his books. We have here evidence that she took a great deal of time and trouble to divert him from his misdirected idea of putting all kinds of stodgy information into his writing about the South Seas, instead of letting his fancy roam free.
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