On other subjects than himself Lord Birkenhead can be extremely vivacious, as, for instance, in. his criticism of Lady Oxford,' when literary indiscretions he treats with 4 severity which is tempered only by the politeness due to to a Indy, He also provides some lively reading in the chapter in which he hi William dusts Mr, H. G, Wells's jacket: for Mr, Clissold is, of course, Mr, Wells, That would not be too bad, though a little fatiguing, if there were not two Mr. Clissolds; and they were not both Mr. Well Those who know this writer can conceive the sheer delight with which, having duplicated the instruments whereby he expresecx his own dogmas, his own cocksureness, and his own superiority, he becomes the publicity agent of his own turns, 'Messrs. Wells Brothers, in facty examine many considerable personages our national life; they' are measured in the Clissold scale; are found Incking according to the—Wells standard, and are flung aide in contempt."
'The method adopted, Lord Birkenhead finds "tiresome, dull, sterile and irritating," and' "both blatant and indelicate." AN of which Is 80 true, that it inspires the rorcrot that Mr, Wells is not in politics, where such chastisement could be. mea. vured out for his soul's goof "when. ever the symptoms return," as the prescriptions say.
"Low, Life, and Letters" contains much interesting reading that is impossible not to believe and (0 hope that its author will continue in his new career. One who has much fo say on such a number of things must find come method of self-expression, and as the Prime Minister has' set his' convenant gainst journalism for Cabinet Ministers, the writing of books almost the only rerource—out office hours, that is to eay.—"Mol ing Post."
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