21 MAY 1910, page 24

Cecil Rhodes.*

Bra THOMAS FULLER'S close acquaintance with Rhodes began, he tells us, in 1881. In that year the Basuto War had brought about a political crisis at the Cape, and the situation......

The Scottish Reformation.'

DR. HAY FLEMING is a very learned and laborious student of Scottish history, and he has done some excellent work in this department. But we do not think that this volume of......

The Caxton Shakespeare.f The Carton Shakespeare Is To Be...

in twenty volumes, f which four are now before us. Pressure of space compels u= to limit our notice to the first, which contains the editor's peneral introduction, with two......

Novels.

DRIFTING THISTLEDOWN.* Drifting Thistledown is a book the title of which har- monises excellently with the contents, for it just expresses the irresponsibility of the heroine......