28 DECEMBER 1929, page 20

The Lessons Of Yesterday

A Modern History' Of the English People, -1910-1922.. By R. H. Gretton. (Martin Seeker. 12s. 6d.) THE title and appearance of this volume give little clue to its absorbing......

Cowper And Evangelicalism

The Stricken Deer, or the Life of Cowper. By David Cecil. (Constable, 15s.) Tins, we have no hesitation in saying, is the best biography of Cowper yet written. It adds nothing......