25 SEPTEMBER 1909, page 25

From A Country Rectory.*

CANON VAUGHAN has done well to give a permanent form to these contributions to the periodical Press. Most of them have to do with botany, of which he is a keen and indefatigable......

A Summer In To1jraine.f

THOSE who know and love Touraine will be the first to thank Mr. Lees, not so much, perhaps, for his histories of Blois, Chaumont, &c., in which he upsets various traditions in a......

Novels.

THE SEARCH PARTY.* hr Mr. Birmingham did not exactly invent a new bland of humorous romance in Spanish Gold, at any rate he was responsible for a new blend or a new method of......

The Court Of Louis Xiii.*

WE may say at once that the author of this book does not always show the discretion which the subject imperatively demands. It could not in any case have been made suitable......