27 JANUARY 1923, page 19

Behind The Shut Door.* When We Have To Join Battle

with the forces of evil or with those of procrastination, the battle may often be lost or won according to the skill with which the ground is chosen for the combat. While we are......

A Farmer's Life.* In These Memorials Of His Uncle, Mr.

Bourne gives us a book with a country flavour. He writes from Farnham, where Cobbett educated himself by rolling down a sandbank. Mr, Smith himself was born in the early......