16 APRIL 1921, page 22

Wwiam Morris And The Early Days Of The Socialist Movement.

By J. Bruce Gleaner. (Longman& 68. 6d. net.)—There was nothing of the hard and bitter Bolshevik temper in the Socialism of Morris or of his friend the late Mr. Bruoe Glazier.......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Notice in this column doss not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The April number of the Geographical Journal prints the interesting addresses recently given by members......

Documents Illustrative Of The Social And Economic History...

Danelaw. Edited by F. M. Stenton. (H. Milford for the British Academy. 31s. 6d. net.)—The British Academy, with a modest State grant, is printing some of the more important......

We Have Received From The. Meteorological Service Of...

report by Mr. A. J. Connor on The Temperature and Precipitation of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, with a set of sixteen well-executed maps showing the normal mean daily......

Readable Novels.—the Wall. By John Cournos. (methuen. 8s....

second volume of a trilogy. The Russian Jew hero of The Mask is taken another stage on his journey, and when we leave him at the age of thirty-one he appears to be at last about......

' Poets And Poetry.

FLAT POETRY.° WE do not know whether the early Italian _painters of-frescoes made their pictures look flat deliberately„or not. The Byzan- tines almost certainly did ; And also......

The Black Diamond. By F. Brett Young. (collins. 7s. 6d.

net.)—This is a long and detailed biography of Abner Fellows, who begins by being a miner, continues as a navvy, and finally -ends by enlisting in a fit of drunken......