17 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 14

In the Days of My Youth. With an Introduction by

T. P. O'Connor. (C. Arthur Pearson. 7s. 6d.)—This is a book which we describe rather than criticise. It consists of thirty-four auto- biographies, or fragments of autobiography, which have appeared already, we think, in the pages of a popular journal which takes the "personal " for its peculiar province. The stage naturally has the largest share. Music comes next. Literature has five representatives, not an adequate representation as to quantity, whatever we may think of the quality. In art there are three, and in politics as many, while there are seven labelled " general."