30 AUGUST 1913, page 20

The Six Panics.* Mn. F. W. Hirst Has Collected Here

several essays which have already appeared in substance in the Economist and elsewhere. Some of the essays are worthy of the writer, who brings wide interests to his conduct of......

A Great Coquette : Madame Recamier.•

THIS clever and entertaining book will be found well worth reading, though M. Joseph Turquan's lively and peculiarly French style loses some of its original effect in......