2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 30

A good many people may care to know that the

Chiswick Press has issued for Messrs. Constable, at 81s. 6d., a new and superb edition of The Vicar of. Wakefield. Mr. .Saintsbmy writes an introduction, and the book contains twenty-four coloured illustrations by Rowlandson-" a personal outrage" according to Austin Dobson, but on that opinion Mr. Saintsbury believes that the only appropriate comment is "Fudge."