11 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 18

" The Glory of Grey " is a delightful essay

in which Mr. Chesterton rightly says that he will continue to praise the British climate till he dies-even if he dies of it. " Only in our own romantic country have you the strictly romantic thing called Weather-beautiful and changing as a woman." In the same G. K. C. anthology (A Gleaming Cohort, Methuen, 2s. 6d.) we find some weighty paragraphs on pigs. " With elaborate training one might have a lap-pig instead of a lap- dog. What is it that makes you look so incredulous ? "

What, indeed ? * * * *