Captive Royal Children. By G. I. Witham. (Wells, Gardner, Darton
and Co. 6s.)—The first and longest chapter in the book tells the story of the younger children of Charles I., including the deaths of the Princess Elizabeth and Prince Henry—it is strange how the best of the Stuarts died in early youth. Its precedence is justified by the interest of the story and by the fullness of our in- formation. After this we are taken back to earlier times and read about Arthur of Brittany, Llewellyn, the last Welsh Prince of Wales; James I. of Scotland, the "Princes in the Tower," i.e., Edward IV.'s two sons; the Earl of Warwick, Lord Courtenay, " a great name with no heart at all "; Princess Elizabeth, Lady Jane Grey, and—perhaps the most interesting, as certainly the least familiar of all—the fate of the Pole children, children of Sir Geoffrey Pole. All are effectively told and well furnished with illustrations. Carefully read, they should add largely to the reader's knowledge of English history.
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