. Review of reviews and world's work. lights on the countryshe ruled, to her death, in 1436. Austin Dobson has written the volume on FannyBurney in the English Men of Letters series (Mac-millan). Mr. Dobsons treatment of the Burney family,and especially of the sweet girl who afterward becameMadame DArblay and the famous novelist, is sym-pathetic, but not particularly attractive in style. In his volume on Crabbe, in the English Men ofLetters series (Macmillan), Alfred Ainger character-izes Crabbe and Wordsworth as the two eminent Eng-lish poets who were moderns although they producedtheir verse
. Review of reviews and world's work. lights on the countryshe ruled, to her death, in 1436. Austin Dobson has written the volume on FannyBurney in the English Men of Letters series (Mac-millan). Mr. Dobsons treatment of the Burney family,and especially of the sweet girl who afterward becameMadame DArblay and the famous novelist, is sym-pathetic, but not particularly attractive in style. In his volume on Crabbe, in the English Men ofLetters series (Macmillan), Alfred Ainger character-izes Crabbe and Wordsworth as the two eminent Eng-lish poets who were moderns although they producedtheir verse before the end of the eighteenth influence of Crabbes verse to-day, says Mr. Ainger,is at once of a bracing and sobering kind. Because Matthew Arnolds voice still cries in thewilderness and the world needs to have his ideas andtheories, his admonitions and warnings, unified, Wil-liam Harbut Dawson, author of German Socialismand Ferdinand Lasalle, has written the book of theArnold cult, under the title Matthew Arnold, and. MATTHEW ARNOLD. His Relation to the Thought of Our Time (Putnams).There is an Arnold cult, a cult of practical idealism—the pursuit of perfection as the worthiest working principle of life. believes thatArnold is graduallycoming into his own,because his idealism attracts by virtue ofits very sobriety andsanity. Mr. G. W. E. Rus-sells Matthew Ar-nold (Scribners) isone of the LiteraryLives series. It wasthe poets expresswish that no biog-raphy of him shouldbe written. So this isreally an appreciativestudy based largelyon the collection of Arnold letters, edited by Mr. Rus-sell and published some ten years ago. This volume isillustrated. The volume onDante Gabriel Ros-setti, in the EnglishMen of Letters se-ries (Macmillan), is byArthur C. Benson. Astrange, sad, beauti-ful, mysterious lifewas Rossettis. has told usa more connected sto-ry of it than we haveever seen before. H61ene Vacaresco,one of the ladies-in-waitingtoQueenEliz-
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