THE - MADNESS "OF' MONTY.- - By- - Robert '
Keiible. (Nisbet. 75. 6d.)-Experience as an officer in a Labour corps, and the spectacle of Rouen, awoke in the meek .Mr. Montague-Smith the sense of rebellion. He was a history- master in Wearstone College, and, inspired by Wells's Outline of History, began suddenly to teach his subject in a lively manner. But when small boys began to discuss Mithni in cricket hours, and the enthusiast himself got into a scuffle at a Labour' meeting, the Head-master seriously intervened. So Montague-Smith went to study history in North Africa. He studied first a lady he met on the steamer who described herself as an actress. North Africa disappointed him' but, when a sandstorm nearly blew him out of existence, he learnt much wisdom from the Hermit of El Meg. Then his father died, and he returned to Wearstone, and warned Peggy Conyers, with whom he was in love. He is left teaching history in the orthodox way. The book is readable and human : Mr. Keable's admirers will not be disappointed with it.
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