2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 30

, " 'Tis not for me my praise to bring,

For censure suits me to the letter "-but censure may hold its peace over A Rude -Book, by " Tell " (Palmer, 21s.), which illustrates pictorially and in mordant rhyme thirty of the leading figures of the day. Particularly good are the counterfeit present- ments of Lord Oxford and Asquith, Sir W. Joynson-Hieks ind Lady Astor, who is depicted in a song and dance act of "drink to me but with 1120."

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