20 JUNE 1914, page 19

Books.

THE HUMANIST POPE* This admirable biography of a great Pope is one of the most interesting books of the present season. The life of /Eneas Silvius is one of the romantic stories......

Mr. Shaw's "parent's Assistant."* "what A Pity That So Great

a man should have been so badly brought up," said Talleyrand of the Emperor Napoleon. When we consider the autobiographical vignettes which stand out from the particolonred......