26 NOVEMBER 1904, page 19

Scolopax's " Delightful Gossip, Informs The Reader's Mind...

taxing his patience grows yearly rarer. We are desperately in earnest about our amusements, and prefer boredom from an admitted authority to entertainment from an amateur. Sir......

" Gusto," Says Mr. Tilley In The Last Chapter Of

his book upon the French Renaissance, " implies strong emotion " ; and in this quality of " gusto," the first necessity of living criticism, Mr. Tilley is unhappily lacking. His......