groups, which was the main factor in men's obstinate resistance
to change, was laid once and for all. No one but a true blue' an can only conclude that some of his finer shades of matter d style have been lost in translation. Liberal could have conceived such a smooth, simple working'
out of our political destiny. •
Robinson the Great (Christopher, 3s. 6d.), described as a; political fantasia on the problems of to-day and the solutions' of to-morrow, sins against the light. Much of what the writer has to say is pertinent to the present political confusion in this country, but it is presented in a dry-as-dust manner, without any of the humour that makes such food palatable ; and the result is quite unreadable—except perhaps by the dwindling body of Parliamentary pundits which are a survival from the nineteenth century. Professor " Solomon Slack " inveighs against the fetish of " stable government," which- makes our political leaders bow down to the dictatorship of the Cabinet—to the continual detriment of the freedom,
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