19 OCTOBER 1889, page 17

Books.

ARTHUR YOUNG'S "TRAVELS IN FRA_NCE."* NOTHING could be more opportune than the new edition of Arthur Young's Travels in France which Miss Betham Edwards has just published,......

M. Arsine Houssaye's Histrionic Reminiscences.*

THIS bulky volume contains an exceedingly picturesque account of what was perhaps the most brilliant episode in the life of its versatile author,—his seven-years' directorship......