22 MARCH 1902, Page 26

In the " Fleur-de-Lis ' Library of Memoirs" (Smithers, Hamp-

den, and Co., 10s. 6d. net) we have The Sufferings of the Royal Family [of France], a reprint of the English edition of 1817. The point of view is naïvely expressed in the preface, where we hear of the "immutable principles of order" and "the right of superiority." The idea that, after all, the cruelties of the Revolution were but a very partial revenge for the cruelties of the antis* regime was foreign to the writer's mind. For Louis XIV. he seems to have had no feeling but admiration. " Conduct governed by great maxims of State "—e.g., L' fitat c'est inoi—and "a brilliant reign," with all the humiliations of the Marlborough campaigns.