... LOWLAND LAIRDS The Scottish Scene Through Three Centuries With his lives of William Wallace and Alexander III, James Fergusson, biographer and historian, acquitted himself well in a conventional manner, but infinitely more revealing in its portrayal of Scottish life, more charged with authentic atmosphere, is his series of essays on LOWLAND LAIRDS (Faber and Faber. 16s.). Mr. Fergusson, who ...

... A MAN with a genius for friendship would be one way, and a good way, of de scribing Dr. Harry Roberts, one of the liveliest figures of our times, who died only three years ago, and whose interests, all of which seemed equally strong, were not only medicine, but gardening, talking and politics. Harry Roberts was the most rational rationalist and the most democratic democrat I have ever known, ...