12 MARCH 1921, Page 22

SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.

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The London Mercury for March is most entertaining. Dr. Ethel Smyth contributes a lively article on her housekeeping adventures and her maids, under the title of " A Fresh Start and Two Portraits." Mr. Conrad gives five new prefaces that he has written for the forthcoming collected edition of his novels, including Victory. Professor Francis Clarke joins in the controversy started by Sir Hugh Allen about " Beastly Tunes." Mr. Shanks writes on the poetry of Mr. de in Mare. There are a long poem by Mr. W. B. Yeats and a lively " chaunty " by Mr. Belloc. We are glad to see that " literary intelligence " in the widest sense has plenty of space.