28 JANUARY 1911, page 32

Books.

THE REAL FRANCE.* THE value of Mr. Jerrold's book—reprinted essays which spread over a considerable period—might easily be over- looked. Publishers, we know, are wary of......

In Praise Of Oxford.*

SECCOMBE makes a bold bid for a public in the " Fore- word " which he writes to this book. "Even now," he observes, "the real truth about Oxford's charm is not perhaps, in......