21 JULY 1923, Page 20

Mr. Seligman has written a painful book. It is unfortunate

that so many undergraduates should be ridding themselves of their impressions ' - but few have received so little from their residence or have perverted so astoundingly what little they received. Mr. Seligman sets up for " the man in the street " at Oxford. In these essays and short stories he makes an opportunity of proving himself superior to all other Oxford types. He persistently exaggerates with humorous intention and thus falsifies even his most trivial observation. His prose would be freer from solecism if he read carefully The King's English or some other good textbook.