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Mr. Henry Salt is the oldest surviving Eton master but

one and has written pleasant and liberal-minded reminiscences of the great school in Memories of Bygone Eton (Hutchinson, 10s. 6d.). He is no uncritical Old Etonian revelling in an impossibly perfect tradition. He criticizes freely and frankly, and, on the whole, justly. He attacks corporal punishment strongly, especially when administered with the birch, and there is an interesting chapter on William Johnson (Cory), the brilliant and unhappy author of lonica and tutor of many distinguished men. There is also a chapter " In Praise of the

Crib ' " : the schoolboy will join us in wishing that all public school masters had reached Mr. Salt's degree of broad- mindedness. * * * *