2 APRIL 1932, page 22

Taking Stock

ONE inevitably regards an autobiography with deep suspi • It is so easy to write, for nobody lucks material ; so difficult to write well. Rousseau's " Confessions " is hidden......

Margaret Mcmillan. By Albert Mansbridge. (j. Iii. Dent....

we compare the shun children of 1890 with those of to-day.. the latter seem by comparison dean, healthy, happy, well taught and well mannered. A great deal of this change for......

Roman Criticism

Roman Literary Theory and Criticism. By the Bev. J. F. D'Altom M.A., D.D., D.Litt. (Longmans. 21s.) " 1O.5IALA literature, particularly in its early stages, was essen- tially......