Tales of Revolution and Patriotism. By Jane Cowen. (Walter Scott,
London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.)—Some of these stories are familiar to most English readers ; some will be new. There are few who will not have heard of Wet Tyler, and Jack Cade, and the Jacquerie; yet they may learn something from Miss Cowen's narra- tive, because she tells the tale from a new point of view,—the point of view of the people. Curiously enough, we are sufficiently ready to take this when the heroes are not of our own race. People who think of Tyler and Cade as vulgar rebels have only admiration for Odysseus, for HOfer, for Tekeli,—in fact, for the patriots of any nationality but their own. It is in her dealing with these foreign heroes that we find the most novel, and naturally the most interesting, part of Miss Cowen's work.
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