31 MARCH 1923, page 20

The Age Of Elegance.*

WIIEN such an authority as Miss Jourdain writes a book on decoration and furniture of the later eighteenth century, and Messrs. Batsford publish it at a price of three guineas,......

Fiction.

MEN LIKE GODS.* Ma. BARNSTAPLE, sub-editor of The Liberal, "that well- known organ of the more depressing aspects of advanced thought," decided that he must take a holiday. He......

Memories Of Travel.?

ON the first page of this remarkable book Lord Bryce says :— " All I desire to do here is to give some sort of notion of the kind of impression which the scenery and the people......

The Oldest Northern Poetry.f

Tun precious parchment in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, dating from the thirteenth century according to Kiss Clarke, though Powell and Vigfusson say twelfth century, is the......