17 NOVEMBER 1923, page 34

Theories Of Revolution.t

THERE are few periods in history which have suffered so severely from distortion, misrepresentation and picturesque inaccuracy of consideration as the French Revolution. Carlyle......

The Old School.

FIELD-MARSHAL PRINCE CHARLES JOSEPH DE LIGNE was born in 1785 and died at the end of 1814. He was a nobleman of the old regime, accomplished in the arts of war and society,......

An American Genius.*

PEOPLE are very busy nowadays putting 0. Henry in the shade ; but if any part of him still protrudes into the sun, this biography of Phineas Taylor Barnum should apply the final......

The Study Of The Sea.*

Sin WILLIAM HERDMAN, who has done so much for the study of the sea, both at the University of Liverpool and in the well- known biological station at Port Erin, in the Isle of......