6 NOVEMBER 1920, Page 23

The Cambridge University is issuing an admirable series of Cambridge

Plain Texts of French classics (Is. 3d. net each) in small paper-covered volumes which slip easily into the pocket and which are printed in a good and clear type. Lamartine's Meditations, De Musset's comedy Carmosine, Gautier's Mena- gerie Intime, Dumas the elder's Histoiee de ores Bgles—the chapters relating to his Scottish pointer Pritchard—and two of Bossuet's impressive Oraisons Funihres, on Conde and on the Duchess of Orleans, which still have the power to move men with their insistence on the vanity of rank and fame. Each book has a brief introduction by Mr. Tilley or Mr. IL F. Stewart.