24 MAY 1884, page 22

High Life In France Under The Republic.* Tel Late Mr.

Grenville-Murray never pretended to " high seriousness " of purpose when writing his always sparkling and sarcastic but never too cynical sketches of the society for whose fads......

Shakespeare's Folklore.•

SHAKESPEARE, despite all that the commentators, doctors, lawyers, ornithologists, entomologists, botanists, and other specialists find, or pretend to find, in his work, was......