27 JUNE 1896, page 13

Scholar's Mate. By Violet Magee. (ward And Downey.)—...

a good deal of smartness, possibly one might call it cleverness, in this book. That is all that we can say in praise of it. Miss Magee seems to be stricken with the same poverty......

French, And Was Produced About The Middle Of The Twelfth

century, though that now existing is Flemish, and is about a century later in date. (We presume " eleventh " on page xv. is a kspsus calami for "twelfth," to agree with the "......