24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 24

L'Abbe Daniel. Par Andre Meuriet. Edited by P. Desages. (Macmillan

and Co.)—The editors of this volume—one of a series of French authors—could not have made a better selection than Meuriet's graceful idyll, which forms an agreeable contrast to a good deal of modern French literature. The notes are full and, generally, accurate; but once or twice we have noticed a slight slip. For instance, the description of matins as the "morning," and of vespers as "the afternoon service of the Catholic Church," is scarcely a correct one. We should not have noticed this, if one object of the series had not been to impart a knowledge of French life and customs.