10 OCTOBER 1914, Page 24

The _Royal Stewarts. By T. F. Henderson. (W. Black- wood

and Sons. 16s. net.)—The romantic history of the ill- fated House of Stewart has furnished Mr. Henderson with material for a very entertaining essay in what may be called collective biography. He does not, indeed, trouble himself much about Banquo or Pharaoh's daughter, but he covers a period of more than six hundred years, from Walter Fitzalan to Cardinal York. We need not say that he is an entertaining writer and a trustworthy biographer.