12 JANUARY 1924, page 22

With His Customary Learning And A Pinch Of Pre- Dynastic

wit, Professor Wyld writes yet another missionary tract on behalf of the goddess Philology. The absence of any hint that he enjoys poetry somewhat lessens the force of his......

The Empire Review.

The writer of the Monthly Notes in the Empire Review gives a rollicking account of what he calls "The Truth About the Baldwin Debacle." He assumes that Mr. Baldwin had no idea......

Artists' Rifles Journal. (christmas Number, 1923.) This...

usual standard. It speaks well for the vigour and esprit de corps of a Territorial Battalion : that it should produce a magazine of its own not only in peace time but in winter.......

Shorter Notices.

WINDOWS. By George Montagu, Earl of Sandwich. (Elkin Mathews. 78. 6d.) This little collection of forty-five lyrics shows, in its quiet accomplishment, a keen eye for pleasant......

Finance-public & Private.

[By OUR CITY EDITOR.] SUPERANNUATION OF EMPLOYEES. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—It is, perhaps, a sign of the times that in modern business there is a growing tendency......

The London Mercury.

The most important item in the new London Mercury is a series of eight poems by Mr. Ivor Gurney. Their sometimes unusual syntax, together with a rough-hewn directness of......

Burlington Magazine.

The January issue of this excellent periodical contains an article by Mr. Eric Maelagan on "The Wax Models by Michael Angelo in the Victoria and Albert Museum." It is, as we......

Fletcher Moulton's Abridgment For 1924. By H. Fletcher...

Benn. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. Fletcher Moulton has got hold of a good idea in thus gathering together all the new law of the year, whether statute or statutory order, or by way......

Old Man's Beard. By J. B. Morton. (philip Allan. 5s.)

Mr. Morton has humour and gusto, and writes very plea- santly of his real or imaginary adventures on the roads in England or in Italy and Switzerland. It is a pity, however,......