17 JULY 1920, page 18

Books.

A GREAT BOOK.* IT has been said, and as we think most truly, that great men are commoner than great books. Great authors almost always show certain weaknesses in their work, and......

Frederick Locker-lampson.*

"IT is less difficult," says Dr. Johnson, "to write a volume of lines swelled with epithets, brightened by figures, and stiffened by transpositions than to produce a few......