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The records of the darkest months of the French Revolution

have been exhaustively searched by M. Hector Fleisehmamx in Behind the Scenes in the Terror, translated from the French by Henry Blauchamp (Greening and Co.. 12s. 6d. net). A large part of the volume is devoted to quotations from contem- porary accounts of life in the prisons of the period ; while another section tells the story of the tragedy of Marat at some length.