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Queen Victoria, by Lytton Strachey.
All the reviewers give the highest praise
to this life of Queen Victoria, which, as
one of them says, is more psychological
portrait than a biography. To quote the
New Statesman: I'm the long aud amaz-
ing career which we follow we are ever
conscious of the Queen as a woman of the
social and political atmosphere of the
changes she lived through and of her rela-
ton to those changes as head of the state.
The career of the Queen falls into five
periods-the Melbourne period, her mar
ried years, the years of seclusion and I'M
popularity which followed the death of
the Prince Consort, her emergence under
the influence of Disraeli and finally her
apotheosis i'll old age as the mother of
her people and the symbol of their impe-
rial greatness
Little Theatre Classics, Volume 3, by
Samuel Atkins Eliot, editor.-Arranged
for the third volume in this series. The
plays are: Bushido from Terakoya or
AIatsu by Takeda Idzumo; The Old Wife's
Tale, by George Peele; Pericles from
from Loves Sacrifice by John Ford.
Back to Methuselah, A Archaeological
Pentateuch, by George Bernard Shaw
This drama of human evolution has a
characteristic Shavian preface one-third
the length of the play. The drama is df
Vlded into five parts. The scene of part |,
In the beginning, is the garden of Eden
with Adam, Eve, the serpent and Cain
dlScoursIng on love and life and death.
The action of part II, The Gospel of the
brothers Barnabas, takes place in the
years Immediately following the war in
Hampstead Heath. Part III, the thing
happens, is seemed in the official parlor of
the president of the British Isles in the
year 2170. Part ", The tragedy of an
oil hae 60 81.
first act the south shore of Galway Bay in
Ireland, in the year 5000. The action of
Part Y, As far as thought can reach
takes place in the year 81 500 A. d. with
youths and ancients and finally the
ghosts of Adam, Eve, The Serpent, and
Lilith appearing. From Book Review
Digest.
Notes on Life and Letters, by Joseph
Conrad.-These sketches and essays cover
a period of over 20 years and include a
wide range of subjects. In the introduce
tory note he says they reveal Conrad lit
erary, Conrad political, Conrad remin-
iscent, Conrad controversial. A one-man
show, or is it the show of one manE'
Ballads of a Bohemian. by Robert W
Service.-Written in the Latin quarter of
Paris after the war, these ballads describe
the Bohemian life in all its aspects.
LoafiHg Down Long Island, by Charles
ItahSon 1ONne.-hr. IOWne walked the
length of Long Island on the installment
plan. Following a road map, he walked
certain distance each weekend and re
turned by train to the city. The next
week he went by train to the point where
he had left off and proceeded from there
Readers of the Century will remember
these delightful sketches in that magazine
last year.
Mirrors of Downing Street, A Gentle
man with a Duster.-A series of biograph-
ical and critical sketches of prominent
Englishmen. While not altogether fiat
tering they are vivid and apparently sin
cere portrayals-Mr. Lloyd George. Lord
Carnock. Lord Fisher. Mr.. Asquith. Lord
Northcliffe. Mr.. Arthur Balfour, Lord
Kitchener and others are included and
each sketch is accompanied by portrait.