27 JUNE 1908, Page 42

The Dictionary, of National Biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and

Sidney Lee. Vol. IV., " Chamber—Craigie." (Smith, Elder, and Co. 15s. net.)—This instalment contains Vols. X.-XII. of the old edition. Among the personages who appear in it are the Earls of Clare of the first creation, Charles I. and II., Chaucer ; a multitude of Cliffords, with the common characteristic of courage, down to W. K. Clifford, the militant champion of freethought ; Lord Clive, A. H. Clough, Coleridge, Collins (the poet), James Cook ; and these are but a few of many illustrious names. It is always a pleasure to notice the volumes of this splendid monument of historical scholarship.