27 JUNE 1914, Page 13

Voyage aux ttate.Unis de l'Amerigue, 1793-1798. By Moreau de Saint-Wry.

Edited by Stewart L. Mims. (Yale University Press. 10s. 6d. net.)—Moreau de Saint-Wry played a part of some importance in the early days of the French Revolution—he used to say that he had been "King of Paris" for three days after the fall of the Bastille—but had to fly for his life when Robespierre came into power. He then went to America and opened a bookshop in Philadelphia. During his five years' stay he kept a full diary, which throws interesting sidelights on American life in the days when New York bought its drinking-water in buckets at a cent apiece, when there were brickworks in Broadway, and Wall Street was only noted for a café where business men made their appointments.