Glimpses of William IV. and Queen Adelaide. By the Rev.
G. Cecil White. (R. Brimley Johnson. 2s. 6d. net.)—Mr. White has edited here some letters written by the late Miss Clitherow, of Boston House. The Clitherow family became known to the Duke of Clarence a few years before he came to the throne, and he kept up his acquaintance, or rather friendship, with them until his death. In these letters he appears to advantage ; the best side cf his character comes out. No one can reasonably object to this, or doubt that the family, whose relation to the King and Queen had nothing of self-seeking about it, gave at least as much as they received. But we cannot help feeling that the editor's panegyric on the Sovereign qua Sovereign, which we will not do him the unkindness of quoting, is somewhat overstrained.
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