13 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 27

In Dandies and Men of Letters (Duckworth and Co., 109.

6d. net) Mr. Leon H. Vincent has written a series of short sketches of a biographical character, dealing with a number of persons who have little in common save that they belong to one or other of the classes mentioned in the title, and that they lived for the most part in the nineteenth century. Among the heroes of the collection we may mention, for instant" Beau Brummell, Samuel Rogers, William Bookford, and Bulwer Lytton. Mr. Vincent writes in an easy-Sowing style, and his book will be found agreeable to road even though it displays no great originality.