24 OCTOBER 1908, page 23

Chaucer And His England.*

APART from the supreme literary merits of the Canterbury Tales, their most conspicuous feature is the variety and con- vincingness of the characters portrayed. Each is typical......

The Peninsular War.*

READERS of Professor Oman's first two volumes have been eagerly expecting a further instalment, and the volume now before us maintains the high standard of its predecessors. The......

Fitzgerald And "posh."*

THE peculiar flavour of Edward FitzGerald's character lends an interest to every new fact connected with him, and it is from this point of view that Mr. Blyth's little volume......