MISCELLANEOUS.—Our Greatest Living Soldiers. By Charles Lowe. (Chatto and Windus.
3s. 6d.)—Lord Wolseley comes first of the eight generals whose biographies are here given. Of the seven that follow five are in South Africa (Sir Redvers Buller, Lord Roberts, Sir G. White, Lord Kitchener, and Sir Hector Macdonald). Then comes an account of "Two Royal Dukes," and finally a group of generals, of whom Sir William Butler is the last. — Facsimdes of Royal, Historical, Literarg, and other Autographs. Edited by George F Warner. (British Museum. 7s. 6d.)—This is the fifth series of facsimiles issued by order of the Trustees of
the British Museum. The political personages range from Henry VIII. to W. E. Gladstone ; the literary and artistic from Spenser to E, B. Browning. A general preface to the whole collection has now been added.—St. Francis of Sales. By A. de Margerie. Translated by Margaret Maitland. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—This is one of the series of "The Saints." We willingly concede that there was much that was beautiful in the life and work of St. Francis de Sales, but we cannot allow that his conduct in the so-called conversion of the Chablais was blameless. It is idle to argue the point ; there is a fundamental difference, not about facts, but about principles, between the disputants.
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