Shorter Notices
MR. SWINNERTON is a good deal of a phenomenon. He has (as he says in his preface) a passion for facts, and these facts, once collected, he never forgets. If one were to stop......
The Appearance Of, Yet Another Book On Oxford Must Be
justified by adequate new photographs and a readable, fresh and enlightening narrative. The illustrations are not easily found, for photographers, like authors, are apt to......
Oliver Goldsmith. By William Freeman.
(Herbert Jenkins. 18s.) "EVEN biography," wrote Forster, in his Life of Goldsmith, " has its critics jealous for its due and proper dignity." Mr. Freeman's book is not......
Kiddar's Luck. By Jack Common. (turn. Stylepress. 95. 6d.)
MANY incidents in this book about the boy- hood of a railwayman's son in a Newcastle suburb early in this century must appear more humorous to the reader who has not shared that......
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