11 APRIL 1908, page 17

Books.

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV.* THE period covered by the fifth volume of The Cambridge Modern History possesses a unity and a dramatic interest which, if we except the Napoleonic era,......

Poetry.

A CHITRAL INCIDENT. [While engineers were throwing a bridge made of telegraph-wire over the river Panjkora, Major Aylmer, V.C., slid down a slack wire and snatched from death a......