17 JANUARY 1920, Page 22

Mr. George Brown has produced a pleasant and informing study

in his A Book of R. L. S. (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). His criticisms and biographical and bibliographical information are arranged alphabetically, and this arrangement, which is so convenient for reference, interferes very little with the book's readability. Mr. Brown recalls the letter to H. B. Baildon in which Stevenson speaks of the Spectator : " My grandmother, as I used to call that able paper, and an able paper it is, and a fair one."