12 DECEMBER 1914, Page 27

M. Verhaeren is less known in this country than be

deserves' and we are glad to receive a competent translation of _t mile Verhaeren, by Stefan Zweig. In the same series are issued enonographs rn Balzac and Flaubert, by M. Emile Fagnet, 'whose scholarly work needs no commendation (Constable and Co., 6s. net each).-We are reminded of Matthew Arnold's remarks about the differences between French and English -critical ideals by Mr. Frank Swinnerton's study of B. L. Stevenson (Martin Seeker, 7s. 6d. net), in which Prince Otto is airily described as " a lackadaisical gimcrack I "