17 SEPTEMBER 1892, Page 25

Ad Finem Est° Fidelis. By A. J. de Courey Leake.

(Eden Remington and Co.)—We may conjecture that Mr. Leake is one of the party which seeks to revive Jacobitism in the nineteenth century. "Tell me," he bursts out at the end of the first of his two stories, "if there ever lived so loved a King, or truer, nobler souls than those who gave up life and love for a sacred cause ad finem esto fidelis.' Be so likewise to him, the heir of the Stuart race, the living Stuart Prince." It was a sorry cause in our opinion, with more sentiment than conviction in some of its followers, and very little but a passion for loot in others. Has Mr. Leake any authority for saying that the Jacobite prisoners were tortured (p. 66) ?