27 JULY 1918, page 19

A Socialist's Outlook

WITHIN recent years certain revelations incidental to an otherwise humdrum laweuit produced a distinct decline in the commercial value of books of memoirs. The publics were......

Dostoevsky's Letters.*

GREAT adventures do not fall to the lot of most literary men. The novelists, at any rate, have led as a rule uneventful lives. Dosto- evsky, the great Victorian Russian, was a,......

Where The Great City Stands.* It Would Be Very Easy

to write Mr. Ashbee down as a mere crank. It would also be very unjust. Certainly he has obsessions and delusions in common with most idealists and reformers, the chief being a......