THE LITERATURE OF FRANCE. 



By H. G. Keene, Hon. M.A. Oxon. i2mo. jfci.oo, net. 



Contents: Introduction. — The Age of Infancy (a. Birth)— The Age of 

 Infancy (3. Growth) — The Age of Adolescence (Sixteenth Century) — The Age 

 of Glory, Part I. Poetry, etc. — The Age of Glory, Part II. Prose — The Age of 

 Reason, Part I. — The Age of Reason, Part II. — The Age of * Nature' — 

 Sources of Modern French Literary Art: Poetry — Sources of Prose Fiction — 

 Appendix — Index. 



French literature from the beginnings of the nation down to our own times, 

 exclusive of living authors, is the broad field covered by Mr. Keene's survey. 

 With so large a subject, his aim has necessarily been to preserve a proper per- 

 spective and give a correct general view, and"his success in this is eminent. The 

 reader obtains a conception of the literature of France as a whole, and of the 

 evolution and mutual relations of its various schools and stages which is not else- 

 where to be obtained, though, of course, a detailed account of all French authors 

 and their works has not been attempted. As the table of contents shows, the 

 subject has been considered logically rather than treated as a topic for mere 

 chronicle, and the chapters on the sources of the French prose fiction and poetry 

 of the present time are thoroughly original in a work of the kind without being 

 in the least arbitrary. Mr. Keene has, indeed, been very happy in avoiding 

 dogmatism, and in refraining from obtruding " his own opinions, even of past 

 writers," to quote from his preface^ has given his book the air of authority and 

 impersonality which is so valuable in a work whose main purpose is educational. 



THE REALM OF NATURE. 



An Outline of Physiography, By Hugh Robert Mill, 

 D.Sc. Edin. ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; 

 Oxford University Extension Lecturer. With 19 coloured 

 maps and 68 illustrations. i2mo. $1.50, net. 



Contents : The Story of Nature — The Substance of Nature — Energy, the 

 Power of Nature — The Earth a Spinning Ball — The Earth a Planet— The Solar 

 System and Universe — The Atmosphere — Atmospheric Phenomena — Climates 

 of the World — The Hydrosphere — The Bed of the Oceans— The Crust of the 

 Earth— Action of "Water on the Land — The Record of the Rocks — The Conti- 

 nental Area— Life and Living Creatures — Man in Nature.— Appendices — 

 Index. 



This happily entitled volume treats of the place of physical science in the 

 sphere of human knowledge, and shows the relations to each other of the various 

 special sciences. Much the larger part of the book is devoted to a description — 

 in outline of necessity, but admirably luminous— of the facts regarding "the 

 structure of the Universe, the form, materialj and processes of the Earth, and 

 the relations which they bear to Life in its varied phases." Professor Mill has a 

 great gift of lucid exposition, and his book is as clear as it is comprehensive. 

 Considering its range, it is a masterpiece of compression. The nineteen maps 

 are specially complied by J. G. Bartholomew, the eminent cartographer. The 

 work has been reviewed with reference to the use of American students by Pro- 

 fessor N. S. Shaler of Harvard University, who has supplied occasional illustra- 

 tions from the point of view of the American physiographer. 



