3 NOVEMBER 1923, page 22

Dr. Johnson And The "monthly/ Review." *

THE title of this big new book whets the appetite, for a collec• 7 tion of the contemporary criticisms of Johnson could be very, entertaining indeed. Consider the variety.......

Thomas Wentworth, Earl Of Strafford.*

IN Ireland, hitherto, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, has ranked only second in execration to Cromwell. The wheel has gone full circle, and in Mr. Hugh O'Grady's Strafford......

The Wild World.*

IT is curious to reflect that a hundred years ago the first of these two volumes would have been an impossibility. In that respect Miss Pitt's intimate studies of wild life......