15 DECEMBER 1900, Page 21

England's Hero Prince. By Gordon Stables, R.N. (T. F. Shaw

and Co. 5s.)—The " Hero Prince" is the Black Prince. Dr. Gordon Stables, after a preliminary description of the misrule and general ill-doing of Queen Isabella and Mortimer, and of the early days of Edward III., takes us to the battle of Sluys, and finally proceeds to relate the achievements of his own hero. He tells his story with various digressions and moralis- ings, after his manner, but he does not fail to interest.