BP, Herbert (with an introduction by Viscount Buckmaster). Methuen London.
A more delightful Christmas gift' than this little collection of more' of Mr, Herbert's erudite sketches from '"Punch" could not imagined. There is only one \"non-Panch" item. and that is a
indictment of the British Divorce nrerul yt characterstcally witty laws. "Sts theme is the absurdity of giving relief to a couple when one of them has erred: but refusing it when both are in error. Incidentally contains brilliant summing of a certain type of war marriage:
John Adam married Mary Eve (22) in'May 1917. Te is within the recollection of the Court that the Inst 'European' War (commonly called Great, aa all ware are called by rose concerned in them) was Teging' at Ghat date. The boy was an aficer in His. Stajesty's. forces," the git! a member of a Voluntary Aid Betachment. serving at" the hospital" to!
Seipt. of a gunshot "wound, neither Teheh Sir Kaam wae set" on. re.
ating' the four weeks of glorious, in the the affection each felt cornbell by na "acted "ey nota bats each" other's tive "Hut Tide. ut. think out They
there is any-one in this: court (with the'besibe exception of Sir Htomph-
Series certainty Tei not for. an far off two Courts of Appeal Judgment, "te "condemn ynmereitul pajeng To review his, tors the errors of the young."
And so Mr. Herbert relentlessly proceeds to show that while Mr. 'Adam could change his mind about voting for Mr. Lloyd George's plan hang the Kaiser or even about his wisdom in joining the Army, he was held to be infallible in his choice a partner for life under pain of being' considered ungentlemanly. Lord. Buckmaster rightly observes that Mr. Herbert's jests are barbe with truth and, in referring to this or sure of the divorce hes that "some one without of divine revelation" would try to answer the question which Mtr. Herbert implicitly asks, "It is described by the former Land Chan-Fenards "price for good cellor's remark that British law behaviour and "not. at a. social Femedy for the admited evil of adjusted liv Mr. and Mrs. Adam's innment ances direct out their occupations—his in a. pul her's office, hers on the stage—where tastes' were different from {those of the war-period when healthy young. they had & cowtmon 9 miration for Mr. George Robey, while both were out of sympathy with the "The "identity med to. th magical.
Then came the aftermath of the jwar—real affection still subsisted [but Joint life was impossible because "On week sayy they sarely tcks Te'was open fo ihe' husband of a suc rice of sleep, tend wie th, Sida receing-room, while. she or ho. might
fowtame, hacked et ited her eres And inthe way, caveat Phere to whicn' he was alle So the rift grew to the final aster and its consequences. this book Mr. Albert Haddock continues his gallant championship of commonsense freedom against the tyr nny of the law. Betting, slander, Yicensing laws and other notions feome within the. scope of the thor's "challenging wit. And here the reader will find that now famous dissertation on "What is a Judge?"
which the author in the pages "Punch" anticipated by several months that solemn protest against Spor independence "which een: tually' compelled the present Lord Ghancelior to give appropriate assurances of repentance from. the Woolssek and appropriate testimony the soundness of "Mr. Punch's" views, As Mr. Herbert points out lout Mr. Baldwin might Rave saved himself" from much criticism However Mr. Baldwin can now read this book, as, no doubt, he has done already and' put it on his special shelf for moments when he is tired Jef the House and the Cabinet, It is strongly recommended that other people should follow the same plea-
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