The Private Life of Henry Maitland: a Record dictated by
J. H. Revised and edited by Morley Roberts. (Eveleigh Nash. Os.)— tinder the thinnest veil of fiction, the life of a very well-known novelist is described in these pages. The story is a painful and sordid one, though the pathos of the central figure is not without its attractive side. "J. H." is by no means a satisfactory biographer, for at times he is extraordinarily incoherent, and ho talks far too much about himself and his own writings. Wo confess, moreover, that wo find it difficult to think of a justification for the presentment of "Henry Maitland''" life in this form. If the record had to be made public, it would surely have lost nothing in reticence, but would have gained something in frankness, by being freed from these absurd trappings of anonymity.
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