The Story of the French Revolution and Heroes of Modern
Europe. By Alice Birkhead. (George G. Harrap and Co. :Is. 6d. net each.)—In the first of these volumes Miss Birkheacf treats her terrible theme simply as a tale to be told. She has. no care for the profundities of historical research or the exact discrimination of effects and causes, but sets out her story in a. vigorous and lucid narrative, full of colour and neat analysis of character. The book, though no doubt written primarily for educational purposes, is one which anyone may read with pleasure. After all, it is not everyone who can digest Carlyle. The second book is not very aptly named, for it consists rather in a series of sketches of historical periods, the central figures of which are often far from heroic. Here the treat-; ment, owing to the extent of ground covered, is inevitably rather superficial, but Miss Birkhead's power of easy and agreeable exposition carries her safely through.
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