7 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 27

Mr. Walter G. Bell has a clear mind and a

generous heart : he knows what people are interested in, and he tells us those things plainly, without the strain and the high-colouring that lesser writers and less learned men so often adopt. In London Rediscoveries (John Lane, 78. 6d.) he tells us of Pepys' account with Hoare's bank, of Lady Jane Grey, of Jeremy Bentham, who is kept stuffed in the Science Library of University College in Gower Street, of Edward L's grave in Westminster Abbey, which was opened by the Society of Antiquaries in May, 1774, and many other matters of interest, including an essay—" Infangthef "—on early law.

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