24 NOVEMBER 1906, Page 23

In a series which bears the title of "Little Lives

of the Great" (A. L. Humphreys, 2s. net) we have a number of volumes, all from the pen of Mr. John Lord. We cannot claim to have read them all, but if they are up to the standard of Napoleon, they must have considerable merit. We cannot accept the statement that there were "no grave charges against him which history will not extenuate" down to the Peace of Tilsit. History cannot extenuate the murder of the Due d'Enghien. Can Mr. Lord have read tho history of this atrocity as it is given in the volume " Napoleon " of the "Cambridge Modern History " ? The other volumes are Michael Angelo, Dante, Louis XV. (But why Louis XV. among the " great " ?)