BOOKS
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS
IT is with a kind of relief that we see, after the tidal wave of the last two months, that all the publishers together have been able to muster up no more than a dozen and a half books for this week. The most notable arc Mr. Galsworthy's plays which make up Volumes XIX. to XXI. of Messrs. Heinemann's Manaton Edition of his works. Mr. E. V. Lucas has written essays on Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, and Chardin and Vigec-Lebrun which are published by Methuen in three small volumes, each illustrated with twelve photographs of the artist's work. The essays are no more than pleasant biographical sketches with little attempt at serious criticism. C,assells send us a collection of pen-and-ink drawings called Changing London, by Hanslip Fletcher, which have been appearing in the Sunday Times. They are unpretentious sketches, but there is a true feeling of London in them, and one gets a distinct though melancholy pleasure from Mr. Fletcher's record of the Quadrant and of Regent Street before their demolition. Scribners send us The Faith of a Liberal, by Nieholas Murray Butler.
We regret that in our review of The Federal Trade Commis- sion (December 20th) we did not mention that the book is published in Great Britain by the Oxford University Press.
TUE LITERARY EDITOR.
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