17 JUNE 1899, page 21

Shakespeare In France.*

"SHAKESPEARE wanted art," said Ben Jonson, and Voltaire, with half an apology for his qualified admiration, declared that the author of Hamlet was " without the least spark of......

Asiatic Studies.*

A FEW years ago Sir Alfred Lyall, long one of the most distinguished members of the Indian Civil Service, and latterly Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces, was......