3 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 36

A Guide to Eternity. By Cardinal Bona. (Methuen and Co.

2s.)—This is a volume in the "Library of Translation." Written by Cardinal Bona some time in the latter half of the seventeenth century (he was born in 1609, and died in 1674), it was translated by Roger L'Estrange not long after the author's death. A few notes have been added by Mr. J. W. Stanbridge. There are exaggerations almost inseparable from the circum- stances of its authorship. Surely it revolts common-sense to use as a dissuasive such a statement as that there is "nothing in the world so false and fading as woman " ; but these are exceptions.