Historic Parallels to L'21ffaire Dreyfus. By Edgar Sanderson, M.A. (Hutchinson
and Co. 6s.)—The publication of these historic parallels to the now historic farce of Rennes is a very timely reminder to us that we cannot throw stones at our neigh - hours. A parallel to the Dreyfus affair is the case of Lord Cochrane, who was imprisoned, deprived of the Knightship of the Bath, and sentenced to the pillory ! He survived to make his name famous on the Pacific seaboard and to come to his own again, to be installed at Buckingham Palace, given the command of the North Pacific Squadron, and to die in a good old age and to be buried in Westminster Abbey. But Lord Cochrane, as he fur- nishes the closest parallel, furnishes also the most decisive and only instance we know of the complete rehabilitation of an un- justly sentenced man. Jan van Olden Barneveldt, after placing the Netherlands on a firm footing under Maurice of Nassau, was done to death by the man he had placed in power. Jean Calais, whose name and fame Voltaire befriended to so much purpose, is the least known of the martyrs of these historic parallels. Titus Oates and the Catholic martyrs whom the extraordinary panic of the times doomed are never likely to be of more than historical interest to us.
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