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Memoires d'Outre . Tombe. Par Chateaubriand. Books VIII. and IX., edited by

A. Hamilton Thompson. (Cambridge Univer- sity Press. 4s. net.)—It was a happy idea to reprint the portion of Chateaubriand's memoirs which describes his life as a Royalist exile in England from 1793 to 1800. Chateaubriand's sentiment- ality has always predisposed Englishmen against him, despite Matthew Arnold's protest, but he was, for all that, a great writer and a man of much distinction. Mr. Thompson's attractive edition of the English episode may perhaps induce some readers to make further acquaintance with the author of Atala and The

Genius of Christianity. ---