Review of reviews and world's work . ISLAUS 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.
Review of reviews and world's work . ISLAUS 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. $ SOME BOOKS OF THE HOLIDA Y SEASON. 757. THE EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH AND QUEEN VICTORIA AT OMIEZ IN MARCH. 1897. Reduced from Das Buch vom Kaiser. M. Herzig. Illustration (reduced) from Francis Joseph and His Times/ and an opinion of his importance to literaturewhich may be understood from tlie fact that heregards pages of literary biography as only reasonable compass for the personal storyof the author of The Sentimental literary biography this work is very full andcomplete. The illustrations present Sterne insome new aspects. Bach, according to the writings of those mostentitled to speak, is the greatest figure in thehistory of music for more than one reason,principally, however, because (as Dr. HubertParry tells us in his recently issued biography)he not only went on educating himself and ex-pending his resources all his life, but hiscareer was unified by all the persistence of thestrong and decisive qualities of character andtemperament characteristic of the race and pe-rio
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