FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
France in the Nineteenth Century : 1830-1890. By Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer. With 22 Portraits. (Hutchinson and Co. 128. 6d. net.)—This is an agreeable and entertaining book, though the style is sometimes curiously slipshod for a practised writer. Also there are ways in which it would have been the better for a little touching up before being set before English readers of the present day. Neither on title-page nor by note or preface is there any indication that the book was not written last year, But internal evidence shows that it was written when the Duo d'Aumale and the Comte de Paris were still alive, and when M. Carnot was President of the French Republic. Of course there is no real harm in this ; the book's age does not affect it as a clear and interesting picture of a period full of romantic variety. Our impression, as will be seen above, is 1.1 at it now appears in England for the first time, having been published some years ago, probably, in America. We do not, at least, remember an earlier English edition. In any case, a little judicious editing would have been fair to book, author, and. readers.
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