10 JANUARY 1891, page 16

Sir William Butler's " Napier."

`SIR WILLIAM BUTLER, was certainly the right man to have written this short Life of Sir Charles Napier. The impassioned pages in which he has recorded the story of the great......

Mrs. Thrile.* "a Lady," Wrote Mrs. Thrale, "once Asked Me

at Streatham Park to lend her a book. ' What sort of book would you like P' said I. An abridgment,' was the unexpected reply ; the last pretty book I had was an abridgment."......