20 NOVEMBER 1909, page 35

Books.

A POISONOUS l300K.* IT has long been the rule of the Spectator to avoid giving the advertisement of scandal to any book, and especially to any novel, which appears to us to be......

Mr. Meredith's Last Poems.* These Last Poems Show That The

voice of the master kept to the end its splendid resonance and his heart its unconquerable • Last Poems. By George Meredith. London: A. Constable and Co. [46. 6d. net.) youth.......

The French Procession.*

IN a certain way Madame Duclaux is 'a better critic of the literature of her adopted country than any of its own sons or daughters can be. She is just so far 'removed as to be......