6 JUNE 1908, page 20

French Novelists Of To-day.

THERE is no doubt that M. Anatole France is the most brilliant French writer of the present day, and that he well deserves his place at the head of such a gallery of portrait.......

Parliamentary Memories,

Tunas is probably no one alive more familiar with Parlia- mental"' life in its every aspect than Mr. Lucy (" Toby, M.P.") He has been for thirty-five years "its close and......

Fynes Moryson's Tars Work, The First Two Volumes Of Which

were noticed by us on November 30th, 1907, is now complete. Vol. III., up to p. 347, is occupied with Irish affairs, beginning with the siege and surrender of Kinsale. The great......

The Magazines.

THE Nineteenth Century for June contains a long and most important article by Sir William White on "The Cult of the Monster Warship," in which be asks that the nation should......