Historian's Holiday. By Arthur Bryant. (The Dropmore Press. £2 2s.)
THIS is the second volume in the series of The Dropmore Essays, the first of which, Mr. Harold Nicolson's The English Sense of Humour, was noticed in these columns some weeks age. Our reviewer then observed that two guineas is a stiff price to pay for 70 pages, " even when Mr. Nicolson fills them." A few members of the public (the edition is limited to 55o copies) are now asked to pay the same price for Historian's Holiday, by Mr. Arthur Bryant. But Historian's Holiday is not a new and welcome book by the distin- guished biographer of Pepys and student of Charles II. It is a reprint, in the Dropmore Press's own elaborate format, of a handful of those suave, hebdomadal articles with which Mr. Bryant diverts the readers of the Illustrated London News. Why?
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