24 SEPTEMBER 1904, page 16

Lord Acton's Letters.* It Is Impossible Not To Regret That

this first instalment of the letters written by the late Lord Acton to Miss Mary Gladstone should have been edited with so considerable a disregard for the feelings of persons......

Books.

AMID the crowd of war-books and "impressions" of this or that belligerent, we hope that this serious and informing study of Japan's aims and achievements by her own states- men......