11 JULY 1914, Page 22

Thirty Years. By Sir Thomas Barclay. (Constable and Co. 12s.

6d. net.)—In this volume Sir Thomas Barclay, whose services to the cause of international peace are so well known, selects some interesting pages from his Anglo-French reminiscences. He was sent to Paris by the Times, as under- study to Blowitz, in 1876, and made his home in that city for more than thirty years. His views of men and events in the generation which ultimately saw the establishment of the Entente Cordiale are of great value, for he is justified in his claim that they are "the views of a man who has been very close to the stage, who has not been deceived by the paint and decoration, and has throughout heard too much of the directions' from the wings to be taken in by any artificial perspective."