12 JANUARY 1929, Page 29

There is no excuse for republishing Eve's Legend, written in

1824 by Lord Holland (Etchells and Macdonald, £8 3s.) ; and this is perhaps why the publishers chose to issue it in so exclusive an edition. It is a pure jeu d'esprit ; the result of quite remarkibly wasted time. Lord Holland set himself to write a pastoral love-story with a happy ending and no other vowel employed in the whole of it except E. If anyone wishes, then, to give a present which would bear on its face that it is of no possible importance or use, we can cordially recommend this volume ; especially since it is illustrated with engravings on wood, of an equal playfulness,' by Miss Hester Sainsbury- a a