2 MAY 1925, page 22

The Commonplace Interview Is Apt To Lose Freshness In A

year or two, and Mr. Herman Bernstein, who has collected his interviews with many great men in Celebrities of Our Time (Hutchinson), was certainly commonplace in his methods. We......

This Week's Books

Ma. J. B. PRIESTLEY, whose book, The English Cantle Charac- ters, has been published by the Bodley Head, is in the old humanistic tradition of litterateurs. He is more......

Changes 'of Address.

Postal Subscribers changing their address, or who while travelling desire their copies of the paper to be sent to a temporary address, arc asked to notify the SPECTATOR Office......

Early Explorers In Australia, By Ida, Lee (methuen), Is A

running history of discoveries iu Australia, of quarrels and agreements with the natives and of the growth of topographical and botanical knowledge in Australia. We begin with......

Schoolboys In - Rebellion

This is a history neither of schools nor of education ; indeed the author prefers to speak of it as " memoires pour servir for a history of schools," and thus disarms criticism.......

But No One Could Accuse Lady Oxford, Universally Fadaous As

" Margot Asquith," of stiffness or inability to chatter. In Places and Persons (Butterworth) she is vivacious, but discreet. The most interesting part of the book is her diary......