Nsw Enrrlows. 7 - Napoleon: the Last Phase. By Lord Rosebery. (Arthur L.
Humphreys. 7s. (id.)—Lord Rosebery has added a supplementary chapter in which he reviews Napoleon's career, dwelling especially on the great opportunity which he lost ; the reign which ended in a great military failure might have been made a great civ.1 triumph. As Talleyrand put it: " What a fall in history! to give his name to adventures, instead of giving it to his age !" Lord Rosebery also dwells on the situation in which Britain found herself with the great prisoner in her hands. To keep,him here, was impossible. He would have "enjoyed the sympathy of Radicals like Hobhouse." He goes on : " Men who are not old have seen bow the support of portions of our community may be enlisted on behalf of enemies much less attractive and illustrious than Napoleon." "Not old" ! indeed. Is he thinking of the frantic cheers with which in the very heart of our Empire Irish Nationalists received the news of disasters to our arms in South Africa P—We have received a " Fourth Edition" of Classified Gems of Thought, by the Rev. F. B. Proctor, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s.) " This book," says the author, "contains a readable collection of Thoughts, gathered from a wide range, of Authors on Religions Subjects." It is as well to warn the reader that the critical portion of the book is not trustworthy. " Belshazzar, as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, ought to have profited," &a. No one now attempts to assert that Belshazzar was the son, though an effort has been made to account for the expression by inventing a marriage of Nabonidus, his father, with the daughter of Nebuchadnezzar.
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