Current Literature LOBO BIRKENHEAD. By " Ephesian. - (Mills and Boon.
10s. 6d.)--But this is too much ! At one side of the picture stands Lord Birkenhead's father, who at the age of 21 was a sergeant-major in the Royal Artillery and was making £800 a. year teaching classics and mat hematics on the north-west frontier of India ; in the middle of the canvas is " revealed " lord Birkenhead, wearing every conceivable sort of halo, as " undergraduate, don, athlete and atumnus," also as super-statesman, eherisher of cairn terriers, and " family man " ; which last revelation prepares us for the statement that our hero's family is already displaying signs of " i iiiii Anent greatness." The note of " Ephesian's " Lord Birkenhead is indeed pitched high, though passages here and there, like the account of Mr. F. E. Smith's maiden speech in the House id' Commons, arc very readable. But the ecstatic general tone of all must make the great condalliere grin broadly at times at least one hopes it will.
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