2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 20

HAWTHORNE'S WONDER BOOK. Illustrated by Arthur Racklaorn. (Hodder and Stoughton.

20s. net.)

Mr. Rackham goes on for ever, but he never makes a sudden sally and never sparkles anywhere. The memory cannot- distinguish one book that he has illustrated from another. There is always the same competence that has become slickness and the same vision that has become formula. The new " Rackliam " is like the rest.