Avnicen "Hawesr-—By E, M, Forster.
Arnold, London, 12/6. time has taken a good deal of the favour' out of the most part of these essays and articles. The book miscellany divided into five the first of which is called Present." Start at random and you may strike an account of the Sargent Exhibition at the Royal Academy jin, 1925, concerning itself with for~ jgotien personalities, followed by "A Voter's Dilemma" written in 1923. Then there' are "The. Scallles"—Q9)—an account of a war-time entertainment, and a description of Wembley before It was quite ready to be opened, Out of the 17 articles, Ave only dale from within the last few years—one is the address given by Mr. Forster to the Congress International des Eerivains at Paris last year, the others are an account of a ame of living chess at Cracow, Mickey and Minnie of the Alms, an obituary note on Mr. Roger Fry, and a very banal utile article con: cerning Mrs, Grundy, Out of the eleven authors dealt with "under yen are of the kind that the average person doesn't rei "The "East" has the mustiness tha hangs over most of foregoing articles—not from any "immemorial"= ness, but simply because the subjects dealt with are. out-of "The Abinger Pageant" Is just fAlier—being the programme of a pageant held at Abinger in 1934 in taid of the church preservation fund, Out of the Mists There remains that division entitled "The Past"—here the antiquity fof the essays cannot really make much difference, for meditations on Greek toilet-case dating from 600 B.C, would probably be about the same in 1936 as they were in 100% Or wouldn't they? Anyhow, among these reflections on people of the past are some very fascinating It ts nice to. be introduced to Gemistus Pletho, and to follow him fas he sailed from Constantinople in the autumn of 1437 In the company of the Byzantine Emperor, the aged Patriarch Joseph, and many bishops, attend an Italian Council' which was to unite the Roman and Greek 'Churches. 'The Emperor went ahead at Venice because the Patriarch would not leave his luggage, Neither did he wish to kiss the Pope So it was arranged he shoul hhis cheek' instead, provided not more than six bishops were looking Less successful Gla and do doubly now, for me.
But the debt which England owed King Leopold was undoubtedly great. He was a sage adviser of the Queen Tight up to the time of his death in long time and the final blow was the death of Lord Palmerston, w had held office for more tran 80 year and had been a strong coadjutor with [Leopold in defining European polley. Pilgerstein," as Palmerston was fectionately' known to the Belgi monarch, was the last of Leopold's feat contemporaries in England, and the'end soon came, Mr, Holden has handled this tractive biographical study with a reasonable amount of freedom. justified by the passage of time. He has. the interests of. science, and. some pleasant writing deals with Captain Edward Gibbon, duteous and bored, marching the' South Hampshire Militia to and fro in an endeavour to turn unenthuslastle yokels into a 'Dulwark against the French. " Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his interlude Trooper, Silas, Tomkyn_Comberbacke is contained in a page or two, and 80 is Mrs, Hannah More, who told Nie—surely an unusual' thing one 50. high-minded—whieh nearly prevented Mr. Zachary" Macaulay from marrying Miss Selina Mills, that there might have been no litre Tom Macaulay and no Essays or Lays of Ancient Rome, Mr, Forster Yooks at them all in such an unexpected way that it seems as though he must know things about them that no one has known before—in fact, no views them with the "seeing TO
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