2 JUNE 1917, Page 16

Romance : Two Lectures. By Sir Waiter Raleigh. (H. Milford.

4s. 6d. net.)—These two attractive and stimulating lectures, delivered at Princeton in 1915, supplement the author's well-known essay on Romance. One deals broadly with the origin of romance, and the other with imitation and forgery, like °Asian. Tho author reminds us that Pope, the arch-classicist, was extravagantly romantic as a gardener, and he goes on to speak of William Kent and " Capability " Brown, who also sought romance in gardens. Brown is the hero of many anecdotes, but this one is new to us. " Mr. Brown,' said Richard Owen Cambridge, ' I very earnestly wish that I may die before you.' Why so ' said Brown, with some surprise. Because,' said he, I should like to see Heaven before you had improved it.' "