Review of reviews and world's work . 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
Review of reviews and world's work . 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 History ofEuropean Morals, and Democracy and Lib-. STAXISLAUS PONIATOWSKI, THE LAST KING OFPOLAND. erty, we are prepared to find proper emphasislaid upon these works—as indeed we do find—andthe character of that eminent man of letters inthe Memoir which has just come from thepress of Longmans. Lecky was a member ofthe French Institute and of the British Acad-emy, a man of great political prominence inGreat Britain, and the recipient of virtually allthe degrees that science and literature can be-stow. He was an Irishman by birth, and to thisfact, his wife thinks, can be traced many of hisgreat qualities. Dr. W. L. Cross (who holds the chair ofEnglish in the Sheffield Scientific School atYale) has an admiration for Laurence Sterne* 2 A Ladv of the Old Regime. Bv Ernest F. Hen-derson. Macmillan. 239 pp. $ A Memoir of W. Lecky. By his wife. Eliz-abeth Leckv. Longmans, Green & Co. 432 pp., ill.$ * Life and Times of Laurence Sterne. By WilburL. Cross. Macmillan. 555 pp., 111. $ SO
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