10 JANUARY 1925, page 20

Fiction

PROUST II. PERHAPS " aphorism " is too narrow a word for the type of judgment in which Proust excels ; for his judgments arc certainly, in a manner, distilled from experience.......

Notable Books

" THE political historian, following the path of the conqueror, observes everywhere signs of triumph, of subjection and of change, but the student of economic conditions sees a......

Im The Last Thirty Years The Number Of Public-houses In

the country has been reduced by twenty thousand, while the population has steadily grown. The legislation which has brought this about may, therefore, be counted as successful......