CURRENT LITERATURE.
Charles I. By Sir John Skelton, K.C.B. (Goupil and Co.)— We have alluded to this beautiful volume in another column of our issue of to-day. We will only say here that the print, paper, and illustrations are as excellent as they were in the previous and companion volumes dealing with Mary and Elizabeth. Specially interesting is the reproduction of Lord Rosebery's picture at Dalmeny dealing with the execution of Charles. This contemporary picture seems to show that the King did not lie, but knelt to receive the headsman's stroke. If the picture ia correct in its details, it also settles the question as to the window by which Charles reached the scaffold. The late Sir Charles Skelton's essay affords good reading, and is on the whole very fair, though written from the Royalist point of view. We must not forget to mention the miniatures of the chief nobles of the Courts of James I. and Charles I. They are of very great interest and reproduced with wonderful clearness and beauty.
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