18 OCTOBER 1902, Page 24

Corneille and the Spanish Drama. By J. B. Segall, Ph.D.

(Mac- millan and Co. 65. net.)—Dr. Segall, after explaining the cause of Spanish influences on French literature, gives a brief account of Corneille's early career as a dramatist, proceeds to an elaborate examination of Le Cid as compared with its Spanish model, Lai Mocedades del Cid, and of Le Hauteur with the Verdad Sospechosa. He has taken a great amount of trouble with this task ; whether there is an adequate operas protium is not for us to say.