Recreations and Reflections. (J. M. Dent and Co. 5s.)—This is
a collection of "Saturday middles,"—we may be excused for explaining, there being no bounds to human ignorance, that a "Saturday middle " is mutatis mutandis the equivalent to a "Spectator sub-leader," or is this obscurum per obscurius? Anyhow, to all who are conversant with the traditions of journalism the essay known by this name is familiar. As we write we remember an example that will refresh the recollections of many,—Mrs. Lynn Linton's "Girl of the Period." These essays, numbering between fifty and sixty, are by thirty authors. Mr. Harold Hodge has, we presume, collected them ; he certainly has written the dedication, and he has contributed three. We may be allowed to congratulate him on the very satisfactory result. He has been helped, and helped well, by a number of able contributors.
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