Cameos from English History. By Charlotte M. Yonge. Sixth series.
(Macmillan and Co.)—Miss Yonge's "Cameos" are taken from the forty years which connected the arrival of the Scottish King James I., and the important questions of privilege in 1641-42. It was a stirring time abroad and at home; and besides the Gunpowder Plot, the trials of Raleigh and Strafford, and other interesting studies, we have "The Thirty Years' War," "The Arminian Persecution," with such celebrated characters as Gus- tavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and Tilly. These events, and the sketches of social life which Miss Yonge interlaces with them, need nothing to recommend them. Both in narrative and in analysis of character, they are admirable as historical studies. The thirty "Cameos "are equally divided between English and contemporary history.
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