3 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 36

The Paippino Martyrs. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan. (J. Lane. 5s.)—Mr.

Sheridan sets forth here an indictment of the policy pursued by the United States Government in the Philippine Islands. He describes himself as having gone to the Islands with a feeling of sympathy for America, which had, he thought, done a good work for the world in liberating Cuba from the oppressive rule of Spain. But he regards its action in the Philippines, both in its theoretical and its practical aspect, very differently. He holds that the States had no right to buy the islands from Spain, and that their policy has been executed with harshness and cruelty. We simply state Mr. Sheridan's opinion, without pro- nouncing upon it one way or the other.