26 SEPTEMBER 1914, page 22

The French President.*

WE learn from the preface to this anonymous sketch that it was finished before the outbreak of the war, and owing to this fact some of the passages in it which deal with foreign......

The Poet Young.* Wrren The Last Day Dawns—a Day Which

he had sung with so much ingenuity—we suspect that Dr. Young will be found to have been neither George Eliot's odious "cross between a sycophant and a psalmist," nor quite the......

Naval Occasions.• Nothing Could Be More Opportune Than...

of this admirable volume of sketches and studies of the sailor- man. Reticence, it is true, is one of the chief virtues of the British Navy, rightly known- as the " great silent......