IF I MAY

I bought a book the other day. Nobody will believe the statement. For a writer of book-reviews, who is, moreover, employed in a public library actually to buy a book is as strange a thing as for a musical critic to pay admission to a concert. But impressed by this "Buy a book a week" business, I went and purchased a copy of A. A. Milne's "If I May". I thought it a safe thing to do. He wrote some of the best verses, some of the best essays and sketches, of a humorous nature, about the war. He writes good plays. But—well, all I can say is that it served me right. —Edmund Lester Pearson for The Weekly Review, January 5, 1921