5 SEPTEMBER 1908, page 22

John Law Of Lauriston.*

A CURIOuS feature of eighteenth-century history is the occasional incursion of foreign adventurers into the affairs of countries with which they had no obvious connexion.......

Readings On The Pitrgatorio.* It Is Nearly Twenty Years...

the publication of the first edition of Mr. Vernon's Readings on the Purgatorio, and eleven years since the second edition appeared. Such a work, of course, with all its great......

The Magazines.

M. ALFRED DE BILINECII'S paper on "The Turkish Revolu- tion" in the September Nineteenth Century derives an added interest from the fact that he served for several years in the......