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Dodo Wonders. By E. F. Benson. (Hutchinson. Ss. 6d. net.)—Dodo

has of course by this time become a symbol of

the particular type of the eternal and flamboyant female who we have the beet of reasons for knowing has flourished ever since the eighteenth century, and probably long before that. Here we see how this brilliant creature behaves during the war, which finds her a coruscating grandmother at the age of fifty-five. The point of the book seems to be contained in the title, but perhaps it should be rather Mr. Benson than Dodo who " wonders " what difference the war has made in that section of the world which is known as " Society."