BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
TEE number of books received this week seems to indicate
that the spring publishing season has already begun. Among
weightier works two from Messrs. Allen and Unvrin are well worth attention. Professor L. T. Hobhouse, in Social Development : Its Nature and Conditions, discusses the character and conditions of social development, how far it
is controlled by human will, and whether it can be directed towards rational ends. Tie second work is the first of two volumes in " The Library of Philosophy " series, entitled Contemporary British Philosophy. It is edited by Professor J. H. Muirhead, and is a collection' of the " personal state- ments " of sixteen contemporary philosophers. From the same publishers comes a new five-act play by Mr. St. John Ervine called The Lady of Belmont, containing, by a curious coincidence which further investigation will doubtless explain, the same dramatis personae as The Merchant of Venice. Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, 1914-1919, by Ralph Hodder Williams (2 Vols) (Hodder and Stoughton), gives the complete War history of that distinguished regiment. It seems to be admirably written and, were our space not so limited at present, would be well worth an extended notice. Mr. H. • G. Wells's new book, The Stony of a Great Schoolmaster (Chatto and Windus), is a delightful account of the life and ideals of " Sanderson of Oundle," and from Messrs. Fisher Unwin comes a little book, uniform with the recent pocket edition of Mark Rutherford, called Memories of Mark Rutherford, by the late Sir William Robert- son Nicoll. Its contents, consisting of five articles, are brought together from A Boekman's Letters. Ainong new fiction there are four books of unusual interest : England, My England, a collection of ten short stories by Mr. D. II. Lawrence (Seeker) ; Horses ch Men, short stories by Sherwood Anderson (Cape) ; yet a third collection of stories, Defeat, by Geoffrey Moss (Constable), whose Sweet Pepper will be remembered by those who admire good fiction ; and, lastly, Streets of Night, by John Dos Passes (Seeker), another young writer who has already attracted attention.
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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