Oxford, too, has its Fitzgerald. "Patchwork" by Beverly Nichols, the publishers (Henry Holt) tell us, will do for the pre-war Oxford what "This Side of Paradise" did for Princeton.

As a matter of fact it wasn't so much Princeton that suffered from "This Side of Paradise" as it was the hitherto comparatively harmless flapper.

The girls described by Mr. Fitzgerald may or may not have been true to life at the time he wrote his book. But once it was published and became the one unfailing topic of conversation for boys and girls it is noticeable the "Rosalind's" and "Gloria's" became suddenly all prevalent. The explanation may be that the younger generation had already a desire to be clever or fast or both but felt a certain timidity as to who to proceed. Mr. Fitzgerald merely showed them the way. Oscar Wilde, and the innumerable others,- who have held that life imitates art instead of art emanating from life, have a case in point here.

"The Shropshire Lad" of A. E. Housman, formerly available only in an English edition is now offered on the poetry list of Amy Holt. This beautiful collection of truly Greek poems by an eminent Greek scholar is not generally known, particularly in this country. Its publication by Henry Holt is a cause for much rejoicing.

The contributors to F. P. A's column have taken great delight in discovering that Edgar Guest was born in England. We can only add that we wish that he had stayed there. For, if he had, we like to think, he would not today be the most popular poet of either England or America.

Professor Santayana's recently published "Soliloquies in England" (Scribner) ought to attract Harvard men--particularly those who remember the criticism of undergraduate life which this author made in his "Character and Opinion in the United States".