THE LITERARY GUIDE

London, England

1 February 1914

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SHORT NOTICES.

“The English Review.”

The English Review. January. 144 pp.; 1s.—

In his article on “Dialect Words” Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith calls attention to the rich store of old and expressive terms which, though fast disappearing, are still to be discovered in remote corners of the British isles. There is some truth in his contention that the tamely uniform and conventional vocabulary of to-day would be made much more interesting and effective by an infusion of the strong and vivid speech of the peasantry. Mr. Edmund Gosse has a brief but sympathetic study of Sterne, and in “The City of God” Mr. Aleister Crowley blazes forth the splendours of Moscow in a characteristic whirl of gorgeous imagery.