30 NOVEMBER 1929, Page 22

It is long ago since Mr. E. Clerihew Bentley produced

his astonishing volume of Biography for Beginners. Now at last he has enlarged his gallery of portraits with More Biographies (Methuen, 7s. 6d.). To the classical account of Sir Christopher Wren we may now add a study of the Wise of an English Monarch :—

" George the Third Ought never to have occurred. We can only wonder

At so grotesque a blunder."

The index refers us, under " Day, rainy, preparedness for," to the following quatrain :—

Mr. Henry Ford*

Had a little secret hoard,

To which he would add a dime From time to time."

The Biographies are illustrated, with entire appropriateness, by Mr. Bentley himself, Mr. Nicolas Bentley, Mr. Victor Reinganum, and Mr. G. K. Chesterton.

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