21 MAY 1892, Page 25

The Romance of History. By Herbert Greenhough Smith. (Bentley and

Son.)—Mr. Smith tells again some more or less familiar stories. We have Masaniello, Prince Rupert, Tamerlane, Marino Faliero, Bayard, Vidocq, and Lochiel, as the best known. Jacqueline de Laguette, with her curious love-story, and Lithgow, a furious Scotch Protestant, who had some very strange adven-

tures in various parts of the world, will probably be new to many readers. Casanova, too, is a curious figure, with whom some will probably make acquaintance for the first time.