BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
THE present year, 1924, will doubtless produce a large number of books on Byron. One of such, Byron, the Poet, has reached us from Messrs. Routledge. It is edited by Mr. Walter Briscoe and contains essays by fifteen writers, among them Lord Haldane, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Professor Saintsbury, Mr. William Archer, and Mr. Wilfred Whitten. Another book on a dead writer, W. H. Hudson, by Morley Roberts, (Nash and Grayson), judged by its subject and its writer, promises to be good. Mr. R. L. Megroz has written a bio- graphical and critical study of Walter de la Mare (Hodder and Stoughton). Two psychological works come from Messrs. Allen and Unwin—Loye in Children and Its Aberrations, a translation from the German of Herr Oskar Pfister, of Zurich, and another translation, Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics, by Charles Baudouin. Under Travels had Topography, My Native Devon (Macmillan) is worth noting. The writer is Mr. John Fortescue, whose History of the British Army is well known. Wanderings in South-Eastern Seas, by Charlotte Cameron (Fisher Unwin), also appears full of interest.
Banking and Credit, by Hartley Withers (Nash and Grayson), and The Common Weal, by Mr. H. A. L. Fisher (Oxford), are both important works by authorities on their respective subjects. William Bentinck and William 111., by Marion E. Grew (Murray), is a biographical and historical study which should be interesting, not only in its historical but also in its social and political aspects. Bentinck. first Earl of Portland, was a diplomat who was instrumental in realizing William III.'s scheme of a European Coalition against a single Power.
Woodcuts and Some Words, by Edward Gordon Craig (Dent), is full of delightful illustrations from the .Writer's woodcuts and will doubtless also provide good reading. . The second number of The Fleuron (published. at the office of The Fleuron) is beautifully produced and contains interesting articles on printing, type, famous printers, and decorated papers by writers such as Herr Julius Meier-Graefe, Mr. Stanley Morison, Mr. B. H. Newdigate, and Mr. Roger Ingpen. It is admirably illustrated in colour. Wild African Animals -I Have Known, by Prince William of Sweden (Bodley Head), is a fine book copiously illustrated with the most excellent photographs of wild animals and birds.
Among several attractive novels may be mentioned Manna- duke, by Allan Monkhouse (Cape), Cheat-the-Boys, by Eden Phillpotts (Heinemann), and The Counterplot, by Hope Mirrlees
(Collins).
Tax LITERARY EDITOR.
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