30 JUNE 1894, Page 12

Marie Charlotte Anne de Corday. By Mary Jeaffreson. (Digby and

Long.)—This "Centenary Essay" is a sufficiently fair

estimate of a remarkable woman. Now and then the style

admits of an improvement, as when, for instance, we read that the "party of the Girondists had been practically rendered a dead letter by the tumultuous decree," &c. Miss Jeaffreson has

no indiscriminate admiration for Charlotte Corday. Her act was futile, for Marat had but a few months to live, and it raised a feeling in his favour; it was condemned, in fact, by the highest policy, as well as by the highest morality. Apart from these considerations, Charlotte de Corday was a singularly noble figure, to which Miss Jeaffreson does full justice.