7 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 10

Tile September number of The Journal of Philology (Macmillan and

Co., 4s. 6d.) contains an admirable appreciation of the late W. Aldis Wright, in which Sir Sidney Colvin remarks that "there was something about [Wright's] bodily presence that accurately bespoke and corresponded to the character of his mind; something set, austerely square-cut, and vigorously . compact, with a manner plain and self-sufficing which invited no intimacy. But his austerity was largely on the surface, and even on the surface was largely tempered with humour : humour grim and sardonic enough, no doubt, in dealing with anything that struck him as cant or flummery or affectation, but very kindly towards those who moved him to liking or respect."