19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 46

Stories of Old Renown, by Aseett It. Hope, and Chivalric

Bays, by E. S. Brooke (Mackie and Son), may be bracketed together, on account both of a certain similarity of subject and of excellence in literary execution. The differences between the two may be inferred from the fact that among Mr. Hope's heroes and heroines are Roswell and Lilian, Ogier the Dane, Guy of Warwick, Patient Griselda, and Genevieve of Brabant ; while among Mr. Brooke's are Cinderella, Hannibal, Constantine, Alfred, Richard II., the rivals of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, and Captain Jean Bart. The composition, paper, and illustrations of both books are admirable.