31 DECEMBER 1921, Page 26

Literature and Life. By E. B. Osborn. (Methuen. 7s. 6d.

net.)—These " things seen, heard and read " are reprinted from the Morning Post, and well deserve to be collected and placed on record. Mr. Osborn abounds in ideas and takes an obvious delight in communicating them. The " open-air joyousness " which he finds characteristic of Mr. Vachel Lindsay's poems is the distinctive quality of his own writing. Whether he is writing of North-West Canada or new card-games, of the Comtesse de Noailles or " The Spook's Progress," of English folk-songs or " Beer, Noble Beer," Mr. Osborn has always something interesting and amusing to say.