26 MAY 1906, page 21

A Modern Symposium.*

THIS volume is a literary tour de force which has recently delighted the reading public, and to them we are sure we need make no apology for returning to a book the appear- ance......

Sir Richard Burton.*

THE most strangely fated of modern Englishmen has not been happy in his biographers. The Life by Lady Burton is indiscriminate eulogy, a portrait of her husband as she wished......