In Temple Bar for September, a series of papers bearing
the attrac- tive title of "The Romance of History " begins, appropriately enough, with a sketch of the life of Masaniello. But is it " romance" or is it " history " to represent Masaniello as having been drugged into madness by his enemies and then assassinated ? Did he not so drag himself—and with liquor—as to disgust his own partisan into making away with him ? "Mr. Twining's Letters" may be described as a good precis, and " A Lover of England" contains a perhaps too flatter- ing account of Count Benet. Mrs. Parr's story of " Loyalty George," of which nine chapters have now been given, promises to be one of the best she has yet written. The third part of " Some American Impressions" is the liveliest as yet, although it must be allowed that America is too much "done."
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