No one is better qualified to deal with the question
of freedom than Mr. Henry W. Nevinson, who has been a lifelong fighter for it upon every modern field. In an excellent anthology entitled England's Voice of Freedom (Gollanez, 7s. -6d.), he has assembled some of the best passages in English prose and verse written in praise of freedom—individual, political, social, and religious. The extracts range chronologically from
King Ethelbert, Magna Charta, and John Ball, to Edward Carpenter, Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and many other well and lesser known modern authors. In his introduction, Mr- Nevinson, with his marvellous faculty for condensation and for terse English, surveys the nature, problems, and history of freedom. He reminds us, in conclusion, that there can never be any halt in the battle for liberty, since its antagonists are infinitely watchful and subtle, and arc always devising new methods of attack. Still, many solid victories have been won, and a reading of this book will not only delight all lovers of freedom, but will give them fresh courage for the fight. * * * *
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