24 FEBRUARY 1923, Page 23

EUROPEAN BIOGRAPHY : THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION.

Books I. and II. By G. Home, M.A. (Horace Marshall and Son. 2s. each.) Miss Home has done more than compress the intellectual outline of a whole century into her tabloid biographies, she has retained its spirit. From a period rich in notable figures, Miss Home has made a worthy selection. Our one regret is that she has not included, beside Erasmus, Bunk the restorer of Greek studies, and Vives, the great precursor of modern educationists, and so completed the triumvirate of the Republic of Letters.