It would ill become the paper for which Meredith Townsend
worked • so long to neglect The Papers of an Oxford Man (Ingpen and Grant, 6s.), which is a tribute paid by fellow journalists to the work of a journalist whose career lay mostly in India. There is no need to e4plain in the Spectator that much first-rate work has been published in the Pioneer of Allahabad and the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore. But comparing the essays and criticisms by Ernest Dare Lee which are -republished in this volume with the Memoirs by Mr. J. P. Collins prefixed to them, the conclusion is plain that Lee's personality was more distinctive than his work : that he had the power to impress his associates as he cannot impress the detached reader. The best of these studies is that on Tacitus ; and even this is unremarkable. -Yet if there had not been something remarkable in the man, this volume would not have been issued.
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