"A LAST SCRAP BOOK."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18949, 21 February 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)

"A LAST SCRAP BOOK."

erudite GOSSIP. " There must be an cud to scrapping." fays Professor Saintsbury, iri justification . of the title of this hook: "albeit, some, nay many, of the gentles professed themselves quite ' game ' for six or seven volumes at least." So this is to be hi„s last. It is not unlike his earlier two volumes issued bv Ins publishers f MacmilSaiis), a veritable olla podrida of morsels cut from many joints. " Myron" an 1 " Fish," " t'opee and '' The (binning She," a tilt at church union hard by a semi frivolous causerie on the spelling of christian names, Conservatism and Liberalism, ending with "Crumbs" and " Grasshoppers"---it. is as miscellaneous a jumble of notions as ever jostled each other in the clever brain of a teacher of literature. It will be the solace of some hours, the inspiration of others, and iow and then the provoking of a wish to answer hack with, severe protest, at the gossip's flashing judgments on men and things. So it- is the same Professor Saintsbury speaking who oft of old stirred his students to alert thought—more set on making them think than on having them approve.