27 MAY 1911, page 21

Two Books On Napoleon.* In The Growth Of Napoleon Mr.

Young studies the environ- ment of the early life of the Emperor, and seeks to estimate the influence which it had on the formation of character, and to what extent it......

Francis Bacon.* It Must Be With Trepidation That Any Author

ventures nowadays to discuss Bacon, since he has become one of those subjects, like the philosopher's stone and squaring the circle and per- petual motion, which are "to madness......