22 OCTOBER 1927, Page 9

Lord ICnutsford is emphatic, for his post card reads, "No

books." Lord Charnwood suggests Kingsley's Westward Flo Tennyson's In Memoriam, and The Gospel according to St. Mark. Sir Oliver Lodge cites the following : Smiles's Self Help, Tyndall's Heat, and Matthew Arnold's Literature and Dogma. In curious confirmation of great minds thinking alike, we have received the following remarkable post card from Mr. Max Beerbohm's retreat on the Riviera : "Samuel Smiles's Self Help, and Thrift by the same author, are the books that most moulded me in my malleable youth, but Sir Arthur Helps's Friends in Council was also a great revelation, and has been a lasting guide."