Chapters of My Life. By Samuel Waddington. (Chapman and Hall.
7s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Waddington gives us hero an account of his mental development, and is careful to make us understand that it is wholly his own doing. "Throughout life," he writes, " my views and opinions have been emphatically my own"; he owes, in fact, nothing to anybody, and so stands, we venture to think, alone among mankind. This assumption seems to run through the book; we are sometimes reminded of a famous remark addressed by a former Master of Balliol to a distinguished undergraduate: "We think highly, very highly of you, Mr. C. ; but not so highly as you think of yourself." No one would deny the good work which Mr. Waddington has done as a poet and a critic of poetry, but somehow these " chapters " do not seem to us to rise to quite as high a level as we had a right to expect. At the same time, we do not doubt that many readers will find interest and food for reflection in Mr. Waddington's pages.
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