Essays and Stories. By the late G. W. Bosanquet. (Sampson
Low.) —These are posthumous papers by a very young man who was only twenty-three when he died, and though they show both taste and intel- ligence, they are not of much value; but the worth of tho intellectual efforts of those who die young is naturally overrated by their friends. If published at all, the essays and stories should have been kept separate; the latter, which come first, are four short and elegant little stories, of a single incident each, the scenes of which are all laid in Normandy ; of these "The Stone-Cutter of Bayeux" and "Melanie "are the prettiest. The essays are, with two exceptions, sensible, but necessarily crude, remarks on Army subjects, of the character which we have been accus- tomed to call "light-of-nature." At the beginning of the editor's preface the impression is unintentionally given that tho author fell at Dybbol as a volunteer in the Danish war, but though he entered the army, he does not appear to have seen active service of any kind.
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