28 DECEMBER 1929, Page 24

The essays in Some Comparative Values, by H. W. Fowler

(Blackwell, 5s.), are, on the whole, not quite so good as those recently reprinted in If Wishes Were Horses, by the same learned author. The pieces are shorter and do not provide the same opportunity for the author's faculty of wandering happily into one division after another of his subject. They lack the sense of leisure which is such an essential of this form. Nevertheless, this defect is only obvious by reason of their countless other excellences.

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