The second number of the Angle-French Review (Dent, 2s. 6d.
net) is even better than the first. We commend to our readers M. Andrif Lebon's temperate and reasoned article on the unwisdom and unfairness of abolishing the Allied blockade and all the accompanying restrictions on international commerce until France has been given time to restore her wantonly ruined industries. Absolute Free Trade at once, such as Mr. Henderson has proposed, would, M. Lebon says, complete the destruction wrought by the enemy with malice aforethought. M. Fontanas writes well on " Ruskin in France," and Mr. W. Roberts has a most interesting paper on "English Exhibits at the Salon," such as Creme's " View near Norwich " in 1814 and the famous group of pictures by Constable, Bonington, Fielding, and others its 1824, which brought a new influence into French art. M. Datuat discusses very candidly, as Frenchmen do, "The Psychology of the Soldier." There are some good verses, both French and English, and the reviews of current French books are egain useful.
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