Abstract

Books in Brief

The article presents information on several books. Humphry Ward's "Fields of Victory," is a thesis proved by generous quotation from the best authorities, officers of the British Higher Command and Sir Douglas Haig himself. As one reads H.J. Massingham's introduction to his "Treasury of Seventeenth Century English Verse From the Death of a Shakespeare to the Restoration," one wonders whether the three hundred pages that follow will prove a golden treasury indeed or only a chest of old brass. Particularity and immediacy have been the watchwords. L.R. Farnell is the author of the book "The Value and Methods of Mythologic Study," which has been reprinted from the Proceedings of the British Academy, from the time of the ancients down to the present the interpretation of myths has been the chief sporting-ground of human unwisdom.