Review of reviews and world's work . WILLIAM EDWIX HARTEPOLE LECKY. Frontispiece (reduced) from A Memoir of W. E. , written by liis wife, Elizabeth Lecky. teenth century woman in France upon the publiclife and the arts and letters of the period isstrikingly set forth in a number of biographicalvolumes treating of eminent leaders of politicaland literary salons, which have recently comefrom the press in this country and in England. Madame, who was Elizabeth Charlotte,daughter of Carl-Ludwig, Elector of the Pala-tinate, became the friend of Louis XIV,King of France, and for years was the
Review of reviews and world's work . WILLIAM EDWIX HARTEPOLE LECKY. Frontispiece (reduced) from A Memoir of W. E. , written by liis wife, Elizabeth Lecky. teenth century woman in France upon the publiclife and the arts and letters of the period isstrikingly set forth in a number of biographicalvolumes treating of eminent leaders of politicaland literary salons, which have recently comefrom the press in this country and in England. Madame, who was Elizabeth Charlotte,daughter of Carl-Ludwig, Elector of the Pala-tinate, became the friend of Louis XIV,King of France, and for years was the main-. BACH S BIRTHPLACE IN Life of Johann Sebastian Bach. spring of a vast amount of political activity and speculation, particularly in the relations be-tween France and the German states. Most ofthe illustrations in this volume are new to thepresent generation. Arvede Barine will be re- Mndame: Mother of the Repent. By ArvfedeBarine. Putnams. 346 pp., ill. |3. membered as the author of La GrandeMademoiselle. The translator of this book isJeanne Mairet. A Lady of the Old Regime,whose life picture Mr. Henderson has given us,was also the Madame of the volume alreadyreferred to. Mr. Henderson treats the subjectwith perhaps less sympathy than Madame pictures in his volume, however, provideexcellent supplementary testimony to the graphicpresentation in the other volume. Having just replied to a letter of inquiryfrom a reader of this Review that the most im-portant works of the late William Edwin Harte-pole Lecky were The History of England inthe Eighteenth Century, The
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