19 APRIL 1890, Page 45

The Prince Consort. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (W. H. Allen

and Co.)—Miss Yonge has a practised pen, good taste, and abundance of materials. By the help of these, she has made a pleasant and useful book on a familiar subject. Novelty on such a topic one neither expected nor desired; but we have what we want. To leave the Prince Consort out of the list of "English States- men" would have been manifestly unfair. He did this country, too, much service. He had, it may be, some faults, the results rather, it may be said, of his German training than of any defect of his own ; but few would deny him the place which he holds in this series. Miss Yonge does justice, but not, we think, more than justice, to his personal and public qualities.