22 MAY 1920, page 21

Fiction.

AN IMPERFECT MOTHER.* THE time of Mr. Beresford's novel is somewhat hard to fix. It-is certainly pre-war, possibly Edwardian : prosperous variety artists had, we think, given up......

Poets And Poetry.

A HALF.TRUTH. LORD CHESTERFIELD invented the phrase, " Measures, not men," which became a commonplace in mid-eighteenth century politics, and which is preserved, like a fly in......

Readable Novels.—staff Tales. By Captain W. P. Lipscomb,...

7s. 6d. net.)—Those who re- member the series of impressions in Punch which culminated with the extraordinarily funny tale of General " Ooom aah's " telephone conversation will......

Some Books Of The Week.

[X -lice is this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent rev;eu% The Shaping Forces of Modern Religious Thought : a Historr, of Theological Development. By Archibald B.......