12 SEPTEMBER 1896, page 20

A French Writer On Cardinal Manning.*

IF the estimate of the late Cardinal Manning contained in this work by M. Francis de Pressense, the son of the well- known Protestant minister of that name, is too unqualified......

Books On Painting.*

WHEN Rossetti visited Paris and saw the work of Manet and Courbet, he dismissed it as slovenly scrawling. This is the kind of apercu we too often get from the hasty, hostile......