FLEET STREET
By Sidney Dark and W. W. Cobbett The purpose for which Mr. Sidney Dark and Mr. W. W. Cobliett have published their anthology Of :modern journalism, Fleet Street (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 7s. 6d.) is to benefit the Benevolent Fund of the Society of Journalists, and it is to be hoped that the variety of subjects will ensure large-sales. The book is divided into ten sections, of which the first, since it contains descriptions of such< -events '-as • Captain • Scott's Memorial Service, the Coronation of King George V, and Mr. Stephen Graham's account of Following the Pipets into Germany cannot be considered particularly modern. The best things in the book are the literary sketches, particularly one on The Tosh forge, by Miss Rebecca West. Mr. E. V. Knox is the only realty amusing contributor to the section on Humour' and Mr. A. P. Herbert, Mr. Hilaire Renee, Sir William Beach Thomas, Mr. W. J. Turner, the late Mr. C. E. Montague, Sir Owen Seaman (in verse) and Mr. St. John Ervine help to save the book from a monotony which is almost inevitable in any collection of this sort.
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