"Suacxteton: A Memory." By Harold Begbie, (Mills and Boon. 2s. 6. net.)
These notes upon the more intimate side of Shackleton's character are not superfluous. They may correspond with deductions which the discerning have made from his writings and public appearances, but they record what for the im: jority of people was left unexpressed. It is not surprising to. find that as a boy ut Dulwich he remained "undiscovered"; to the last he led a life of imagination, parallel with the external life, and for the most part screened from observation or but shyly and fragmentarily disclosed. It was very characteristic, the way in which he would hesitatingly tender a poetical quotation as though he realized it was unlikely to convey all that it meant to himself.
Mr. Begbie tells how, despairing of conformity between the inner and the outer life, the future explorer ran away to sea at 16, Ile rarely spoke of it, because it might distress his father and seem to re-fleet on him. "It would look as if he had not been a good father. Many people would say I must have had a bad home. But it was a good home. I went be-
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