15 AUGUST 1896, page 24

Memoirs Of An Amateur Rider.*

SIR CLAUDE DE CRESPIGNY'S reminiscences can hardly help challenging comparison with the autobiography of the late Sir John Astley, published not long before the latter's death a......

Balza.c.* Many Years Ago A Foreign Critic Said Of Balzac

that he is "one of the greatest literary geniuses, the most faithful painter of manners, and one of the purest moralists of his age." About the same time an English reviewer......