  “Good.”—AthenÆum. “An excellent book for serious thinkers ... showing a thorough grasp of every subject it deals with. What especially pleases us is the absence of all attempt at humour.”—Scotsman. “Should go far ... as far as possible.”—Church Times. “The Areopagitica filled a lacuna in English literature which had not previously been noticed. Milton in his blindness saw what others, better equipped with visual organs, had failed to perceive. What was his reward? Is not his monumental work the text-book for all encyclopÆdists of the Areopagus?... But it is a trifle heavy. Even Q. H. Flaccus opined that it was dulce to desipere in loco. Sometimes one feels the need of a lighter work, which makes a less severe tax on the cerebellular tissue. This is it.”—Daily Telegraph. “Rotten.”—G. S. B. in Extenso. “Teachers will welcome this volume, as it proves clearly how superfluous is the didactician.”—Schoolmaster. “These scribblers just have got it in once. It eats. They are some shakes.”—American Review. “Receiving orders daily.”—Stubbs’ Gazette. AFTER THIS YOU WILL WANT to know why all this nonsense has been written by a supposed Englishman, and why it has ever been published. Yet you will perhaps admit that it is at least SOMETHING TO TAKE a common or garden Nursery Rhyme and a rare or hothouse Kinematograph, and weld them together coherently, so as to expose the hidden immorality of the former, and to turn the searchlight of the latter towards Truth. In AWAY THE human body is acted upon similarly by such a corrective as Beecham’s Pills, which cleanse the system of impurities and so enlighten and enliven all vital functions. It is not bad TASTE to make such a comparison, although it sounds something like an advertisement; and it need only be added that a box of the aforesaid Pills is frequently stated to be worth more than half-a-ton of coal, and more than three times as much as a lawyer’s pre-war opinion. blond woman (Truth) being filmed while dark haired woman (Time) looks angry Turning the searchlight towards Truth. |
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