4 AUGUST 1923, page 14

Books.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS. RUMOUR says that A Reversion to Type, Miss E. M. Delafield's new novel (Messrs. Hutchinson), is very different from her War Worker or Humbug. The publishers......

Links With The Past.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.} Sin,—As a young soldier of about two years' service I was officially inspected by, and had a brief conversation with, an officer who had served......

Poetry.

THE SWIFTS. Now, day by day, the season drifts To autumn. See the gathering swifts As busy as a good ship's crew, In suits of white and navy blue ; About the masts they lift and......

Lord Rosebery.*

Ma. RAYMOND has written a clever and readable book ; but it is difficult to understand why he wrote it, for it seems rather a gruesome task to present to his own generation a......

European Schools In India.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—Since the inauguration of the new political arrange- ments in India it has become clear that grants from Indian public funds for the......