* * * A GOOD many readers of the Spectator
will remember Michael Roberts, schoolmaster, philosopher, Alpinist, husband of Janet Adam Smith, who before his death in 1948, at the age of forty-six, was a fairly frequent contributor to our review columns. He was a striking personality—a member of the Communist Party in 1925 and Principal (like Derwent Coleridge a century earlier) of the Anglican St. Mark's Training College at Chelsea in 1944—and some record of his varied life was clearly called for. A few of his friends and colleagues have supplied it in the form of a well- produced booklet obtainable from Richard Hamilton at St. Mark's College at 4s. 4d. post free. Its intrinsic interest should commend it to those who never knew Michael Roberts, as well as to his varied circles of friends.
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