14 APRIL 1917, page 15

The " Conspicuos Town."*

SIR HERBERT MAXWELL'S historical study is a careful and competent, yet thoroughly readable, account of the men and the influences that have formed the Edinburgh of to-day.......

An Anthology Of Shakespeare Criticism.•

THE reader cares nothing for the motives that inspired Pope to write the Dunciad, or Dryden to the composition of one of his flamboyant dedications. Satire and panegyric are......