27 MAY 1893, Page 25

" gentleman " has no pre cise equivalent in any

foreign language,

and that the conception which it denotes is a very interesting one. By way of illustrating this conception, he b as collected a number

of extracts from writers, old and new. These are very interesting, nor are we disposed to complain because they are not grouped in "a chronological sequence, or under an dytical headings." Never- theless, it would have been well to have given us some sort of clue.

The compiler must have lad some method in his mind ; this he might have given us. At the very least, he might have

supplied us with an index. Ter a is not even a list of authors. For this last omission there on b no excuse. Surely, a little reflection must have shown how much it would have increased the interest of the book.