21 DECEMBER 1912, page 24

A New Book On Port-royal.*

THE story of Port-Royal has been often told, and it will be told many times again. For Port-Royal in its palmy days was a little world—a world in the variety of its characters,......

A True Reformer.t

THE life of William Hone was eminently worth writing, not only as the story of a man who played an important part in one of the moat interesting periods of English social and......

The Perfect Parodist.*

THE seventeen parodies strung together by Mr. Beerbohm are not all equally successful ; and, strangely enough, he imitates least well the authors whose methods and manner are......

Professor Elton On English Literature: 1 " Provessor...

as "a review, a direct criticism, of everything I can find in the literature of fifty years that speaks to me with any sound of living voice." It is not therefore a history of......