27 JUNE 1914, Page 13

Vale- By George Moore. (William Heinemann. 68.)—This is the third

and concluding volume of Mr. Moore's artless and informal autobiography. We regret to say that it combines some very interesting, and even beautiful, passages with many which only a total absence of good taste could permit any one to publish. The best possible comment on some of Mr. Moore's elderly reminiscences of youthful indiscretions is his own description of himself and some of his friends as "pigs no doubt, but aspiring pigs." He tells 118 that it has always been his petit luxe to be ridiculous, and it is no doubt to this aspiration that we must ascribe the blots on his book. Yet it contains many pages which are worth reading.