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The Review of Reviews 



Disraeli: "What, then, was the duty of an English 

 Minister? To effect by his -policy all those changes 

 which a revolution would 'effect by force.'''' 



William Hone: His Life and Times. By 

 Frederick W. Hackwood, (T. Fisher 

 Unwin. los. 6d. net.) 



Contains the autobiography of a man whom the writer 

 calls " A type of Englishman into whose brains had 

 distilled" the doctrines of the French Revolution, which 

 inspired him, not to action but to thought ; a type of 

 the phlegmatic, slow-moving Englishman to whose 

 opinions, and the proper constitutional advocacy -f 

 them, may be traced the roots of so many of our 

 modern reforms." Hone was in the thick of the various 

 disturbing elements of the times, and poured out his 

 thoughts in pamphlets, the cost of which came heavilv 

 upon himself and his family. Charles Lamb was on.? 

 of his friends, and the book contains several of his 

 letters and two very fine photographs of Lamb and his 

 sister Mary. Possibly the volume would have been 

 better for a certain amount of pruning, but most cer- 

 tainly Hone was very often wrongfully accused and 

 painfully punished. 



Marshal Ney. By A. Hilliard Atteridge. 

 (Methuen and Co. los. 6d. net.) 



A full history of Marshal Ney, from his birth in a year 

 of great men, to the tragedy of the Luxembourg, in 

 the Waterloo year, written by a man who is obligingly 

 blind to any defects in his hero, but whose very admira- 

 tion makes him exceptionally careful over every little 

 detail. There are several fine illustrations from paint- 

 ings and old engravings, and eight maps of the most 

 famous of the battles in which he was engaged. 



The Love Affair of the CondSs. By H. Noel 

 Williams. (Methuen and Co. 15s. net.) 



Naturally, Catherine de Medici plays a somewhat 

 prominent part in these histories, which, though not 

 always of savoury matters, are very delicately touched 

 upon. To give even a list of the ladies mentioned 

 would take more space than can be given here, and one 

 is continually called upon to remember that to be the 

 mistress of a great man in the days of the Condes was 

 generally considered more of a distinction than a dis- 

 grace. The book is illustrated with seventeen portraits. 



William the Silent. By Jack Colling-s Squire. 

 (Methuen. los. 6d. net.) 



This is pre-eminently a book for students, every avail- 

 able authority has been carefully studied, and it 

 abounds in detail. Mr. Squire has endeavoured to pui 

 aside every prejudice and to write with calm and 

 without bias, but he cannot help betraying the 

 great admiration he has for William himself. 

 "William the Silent" is scarcely a book for holiday 

 reading, its very wealth of detail would hinder that : 

 moreover, it depicts an agonising period of Dutch and 

 Flemish history, but no student of the period can afford 

 to disregard it. 



SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS. 



Modern Problems. By Sir Oliver Lodge. 

 (Methuen. 5s. net.) 



1'apers on modern difficulties by so eminent a man 

 ■id so courageous a thinker are bound to be thought- 

 iully read. 



Woman and Womanhood. By C. W. Saleeby. 

 Heinemann. los. net.) 



A valuable contribution to our eugenic literature by 

 this well-known writer on sociological and medical 

 problems of the day. The argument which runs 

 through the book is that only the best women can be 

 the best mothers. He treats of the physical training 

 of girls, the maternal instinct, choosing the fathers 

 of the future, and so on. 



The Women's Rights Library (Agent : Stewart, 

 Newcastle Street.) 



is reproducing some of the most interesting early 

 literature dealing with the emancipation of women. 

 The pamphlets are variously priced, the first issue being 

 the Elssay of the Marquis Condorcet (id.), the second 

 "Woman's Influence on the Progress of Knowledge," 

 by Buckle, " Memoirs of Mary Somerville " and " The 

 Political Status of Women," by Mrs. Besant, following. 

 A complete list can be obtained from the agent. 



Medical Benefit in Germany and Denmark. By 

 B. and T. G. Gibbon. (P. S. King and 

 Son. 6s. net.) 

 It is a great pity this book could not have been pub- 

 lished in cheaper form, for the information given, as 

 to the working of insurance against sickness in the 

 countries mentioned, is invaluable for all who wish to 

 have practical knowledge of this difficult and much- 

 disputed attempt of the Government to help the work- 

 ing classes. 



The Industrial Crisis. By W. J, Sanderson. 



(Siegle Hill. 6d.) 



Endeavours to show the standard by which the patriotic 

 man should measure present-day difficulties. 



The Sociological Value of Christianity. By 

 Georges-Hill. (Adam and Charles Black. 

 7s. 6d. net.) 



Report of the National Conference on the Pre- 

 vention of Destitution. Held at Caxton 

 Hall in June, 1912. (P. S. King and Son. 

 los. 6d. net.) 



Religious Liberty. By Francesco Ruffini. 

 Translated by J. Parker Hayes. (Williams 

 and Norgate. 12s. 6d. net.) 



This book, which is printed in beautiful type, is a 

 valuable contribution to religious history ; beginning 

 with the early Fathers of the Church, it touches upon 

 Bayle, Goodwin, Milton, Frederick William II., and 

 so on through the Waldenses to modern times. Per- 

 haps Mr. Bury's words in his preface will best de- 

 scribe its scope : " I wonder whether the friends of 

 Erastianism in England will be eager to appeal to 

 Signor Ruffini's judgment, which is based on a pro- 

 found distrust of ecclesiastical liberty." 



The Latter Day Saints. 

 R. W. Kauffman. 

 los. 6d. net.) 



By Ruth Kauffman and 

 (Williams and Norgate. 



A careful study of the Mormons from every point of 

 view, historical, political, and economic, with a list of 

 authorities from which much of the information has 

 been drawn. The authors consider that Joseph Smith 

 was a subject of auto-hypnosis. They especially oppose 



