19 MAY 1900, page 24

Scotland's Ruined Abbeys.

Scotland's Ruined Abbeys. By Howard Crosby Butler, A.M. (Macmillan and Co. 12s.)—Whether Mr. Butler be a Scotsman by birth or not we do not know, and there is nothing in the......

The Life Of Cesare, Cardinal Baronius.

The Life of Cesare, Cardinal Baronius, of the Roman Oratory. By Lady Amabel Kerr. (London and Leamington Art and Book Company.)—This is a Life of Cesare Baronius, the great......

Some Books Of The Week.

[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] Charterhouse. By A. H. Tod, M.A. (G. Bell and Sons. 3s. Cd. net.)—This......

Biography.••." The Beacon Biographies," Edited By M. A

De Wolfe Howe (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 2s. 6d. per vol.), are intended to be "a series of brief, readable, and authoritative accounts of the lives of those Americans who......

Wail Boos.—we Have To Notice This Week Two Books About

Ladysmith. One of these is Four Months Besieged, by H. H. S. Pearse (Macmillan and Co., Cs.) Mr. Pearse was in Natal when the war broke out, and in Ladysmith during the whole of......