29 AUGUST 1908, Page 23

We have received Vol. III. of The Works of James

Buchanan, Collected and Edited by James Bassett Moore (J. B. Lippincott Company ; sold only in sets of 12 vols., 212 12s. net). James Buchanan was President of the United States 1856-1860. This volume contains speeches, papers, letters, dr.c., from February 12th, 1836—June 27th-28th, 1838. Some at least of them look as if they might have been permitted to pass into oblivion without loss. But of this we can hardly, it may be, judge on this side of the Atlantic.