13 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 20

Mr. Morshead's Everybody's Pepys, with sixty illustrations by Mr. Ernest

Shepherd (Bell, 10s. 6d.), is as perfectly produced a classic as we have seen. That the illus- trations are by Mr. Shepherd is a paean of praise in itself. There is a sweet picture of Deb. returning a note to the naughty diarist, in which he tells her he will continue to deny he ever kissed her-" and so she might govern herself." Pepys might be ruined for us by a bad illustrator : Mr. Shepherd has made the immortal text sparkle more brightly. This is as good a gift book as could be devised.