Peace of Mind : Essays and Reflections, August, 1914—September, 1911.
(A. Melrose. 3s. Gd. net.)—Peace of Mind is an anonymous collection of " brief essays and fragments." It is charmingly written, and suggests a practised hand. The author seeks relief from work and anxiety among his books, and the reader may seek and find it with him if he is of a literary turn. Most of the papers deal with books and authors of the past—with " a vanished school of novelists," the Carlyles, Tennyson, Swinburne, and their American contemporaries. The writer does not, however, ignore the newer lights. Mr. Arnold Bennett and contemporary poets claim his attention, but his heart is t ith the writers of the past. So many men and women are in agreement with him (particularly in these strenuous days when all the " problems " not forced upon us by the present crises seem tis " the last straw ") that he cannot lack a fairly wide public.
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