19 JULY 1930, Page 39

A WONDER FOR WISE MEN. By Wallace B. Nichols. (Ward,

Lock. 7s. 6d.)—We are here given a graphic account of Henry Tudor's victory over Richard Crookback on Bosworth Field, and of his subsequent difficulties in attempting to enforce a policy of peace on England. Mr. Nichols suggests—and throughout the story he gives us no occasion for doubt— that at the conclusion of the long struggle between the Houses of Lancaster and York there was a certain reaction against war with all its misery and futility, The least that may be said for this historical romance is that it is never tedious, while such characters as Bishop Morton, Princess Elizabeth of York, Charles VIII of France, and John Cabot, tend to make it extremely interesting.