3 MAY 1919, Page 21

Swings and Roundabouts. By T. McDonald.Rendle. (Chap- man and Hall.

15s. net.)—Mr. Rendle, looking back over thirty years of life in London as a hard-working journalist and an inveterate playgoer, describes for us the infinite variety of London's amusements which he can remember, with a brief prelude about the Press Gallery in the early Home Rule days. It is a pleasant book which evokes for the middle-aged reader many agreeable memories of the circus, the old-fashioned music- hall, the panorama, the tight-rope walker, and other diversions of the past. We are interested to learn that Mark Lemon once took a company on tour to play Shakespeare, and was fined a sovereign by some country Justice for performing Henry the Fourth without a licence.