20 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 10

On ,Staying at Home (Lon g mans and 0o., 3s, 61 net)

is the first and longest of another little, collection of essays, published by the anonymous author of Times and Days. The -writer is for the most part concerned with general and some., what vague matters, such as " being poor" and " leaving things unsaid"; sometimes he writes of the war, and now and then Rills rather dangerously with scioutillo subjects.