18 FEBRUARY 1911, page 20

Novels.

DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.* IN spite of—or, as some might cynically say, with the excep- tion of—Macaulay's great Whig epic, "Dutch William" has never been a really popular figure......

Mr. Whibley's Essays.* The Republication By A Different...

Mr. Whibley's three chief volumes of essays enables us to call attention to the work of one of the most delightful essayists and acutest critics of our day. There is nothing dim......

America Criticised.*

AFTER Mr. Trollope, Charles Dickens; after Charles Dickens, " Rita " ; and the last of the three critics is the most severe. Possibly she had the greatest provocation. Did she......

Unfrequented France.*

IT is more than twenty years since Miss Betham-Edwards brought out her book, The Roof of France, which introduced almost all English and very many French readers to the beauties......