Women of the French .Revolution. By Winifred Stephens. (Chapman and
Hall. 15s.)—Miss Winifred Stephens has col- lected a mass of interesting information in her book on Women of the French Revolution—the courtesan, Theroigne de Mericourt ; the enthusiast, Charlotte Corday ; the poor old prophetess, Catherine Labrousse ; the " blue-stockings," Mme. Roland and Mme. de Stag—but, unfortunately, Miss Stephens does not bring a particularly penetrating intellect to bear upon them, and what ought to be a strange and revealing treatise on human nature becomes merely an agglomeration of interesting fact. It is, like so many excellent compilations of its kind, really the raw material of a book, and, though its pages are attractive and there is much to be learnt from it, the reader is apt to be exasperated now and then by Miss Stephens's missed opportunities.
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