19 JANUARY 1924, page 18

A Sympathetic Guide.

MR. KENDON'S little book appears at a very apposite moment, when the dramatic disinterment of William Baker's marvellous series of frescoes at Eton, and the exhibition of......

The Book Of The Beloved.

MIL JOHNSTON'S is a most difficult book to appraise ; a terri- fying and portentous book. The mind running in search of comparisons pauses at the Chinese examination system......

Goethe Re Visited.

WE feel after reading Croce that his philosophy aims at detach- ment, and that his method for attaining it in literary criticism is to be suspicious of the historical,......