Odd Bits of History. By Henry W. Wolff. (Longmans.)—If Load
Acton is to be believed, there are many more blank spaces than occupied spots in history. But this is not Mr. Wolff's idea in putting together this volume, a reprint of papers contributed to Blackwood, the National Review, and the Gentleman's Magazine. He has gone into certain by-ways of history, and made some highly interesting sketches of persons and events. "The Pre- tender [the First] at Bar-le-duc " is the first paper, "Richard de in Pole, White Rose," is the second. Richard's death at Pavia was, on the whole, a deliverance, not only for the Tudor dynasty, Mit for the country over which he might possibly have been called to rule. " The Prince Consort's University Days " (he was a student at Bonn, much to the ultimate advantage of that town and University) is a very pleasant paper. " The Remnant of a Great Race" tells us about the Wendts, once an important branch of the Slavonic race, now dwindled to a population of about one hundred and fifty thousand. Among the other papers are " The Early Ancestors of our Queen," " About a Portrait at Windsor," and " Voltaire and King Stanislas."
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