14 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 37

SIR ALGERNON METHUEN, BART.: A MEMOIR. (Methuen.) SIR ALGERNON METHUEN,

BART.: A MEMOIR. (Methuen.)

l'HIS brief memoir, excellently printed and illustrated, was issued for private circulation in connexion with the recent Unveiling of the bronze memorial tablet in Messrs. Methuen's Office in Essex Street, Strand. It shows the founder of the famous publishing firm not merely to have possessed great business acumen, but to have been many-sided in his interests and of a singularly philanthropic nature.