20 NOVEMBER 1909, page 6

A Rose Of Savoy.*

AMONG "sad stories of the death of kings," not the least pathetic is the tragedy of the young Duo and Duchesse de Bourgogne. The grandson of Louis XPir., had he lived, would......

The Problem . Of The Small Holder.* A Witinta. In

1790 speaks of "a species of frenzy, terra- mania." The phrase might form the text of these painstaking Ford Lectures, which even readers fresh from Dr. Slater and Dr. Hasbach......

The Story Of The Comets.* Mr. Chambers's Book Must Be

acknowledged to be thoroughly well timed. Whether we view Halley's Comet from the "standpoint of the historian or the astronomer," the author reminds us that it must be regarded......