21 FEBRUARY 1925, page 20

The Fable Of The Bees

BERNARD MANDEVILLE, a Dutchman, living in the seventeenth century, considered human nature to be fundamentally wicked. Man " in a state of nature " is a headstrong, selfish and......

Miss Amy Lowell's Biography Of John Keats Has Been Long

awaited : it is now published in two volumes by Messrs. Cape. They arc fat volumes, impressive and rather sobering ; as we turn the pages, fact upon fact meets our eyes. The......

The Casanova Society Publishes A New Translation Of The...

of Charles Baudelaire, by Mr. Arthur Symons. The Best Poems of 1924, selected by Mr. Thomas Moult, is sent to us by Messrs. Cape. Something seems to have discouraged our younger......

Messrs. Dent Issue A Cheap Edition Of The Letters From

W. II. Hudson to Edward Garnett, and Mr. Garnett has seized the opportunity to deal severely in a new preface with all the critics who found any fault in Hudson. " Critics of......

Books

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS Miss Eam \ COLDAIAN is one of the most famous of anarchists, one of t he most idealistic of revolutionaries, a true follower of Prince Kropotkin. When she was......