Great Thinkers. (C. W. Daniel. 6d. net.)—This is a little
volume of extracts from Alexander Vinet, Carlyle, Ruskin, and others on "Church and State," "History," "The Unseen," and other subjects. The selection seems a good one, though we cannot accept all the opinions,—Dr. Clifford's, for instance, that "all our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken laws of the land." We owe at least as much to King Alfred as we do to Dr. Clifford's "passive resisters armed to the teeth," and there is a freedom which "slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent." A little correction of the proofs, especially in the matter of punctua- tion, would have improved this book.—With this we may mention, in the "Little Library of French Classics," Xavier de Maistre's Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre, together with the Expedition Nocturne Autour de Ma Chambre, and Le Lepreux de la Cite d'Aoste (A. Treherne and Co., 8d. net each).
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