20 JULY 1912, page 24

The Empress Josephine.*

THIS very pleasant and sympathetic biography is in some ways a curious contrast to M. Joseph Turquan's clever book on Josephine, reviewed in the Spectator a little time ago ;......

Fiction.

A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH.* "GOD offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose." So says Emerson in his essay on Intellect. The lover of repose will accept the first......

The Kingdom Of God.* Mn. Temple's New Book Is Delightful

Its purpose is to discuss the relation of Christianity to the life of the world in our day. He has an extraordinary power of laicizing theology, if we may be forgiven the......