11 JULY 1908, page 20

Some Modern French Books.*

M. ANATOLE FRANCE'S brilliant history of Joan of Arc easily takes one of the highest places among French books recently published. He has a w,Inderful gift of picturing the......

Dr. Verrall's "eumenides."* "i'he Year 458 B.c. Is One Of

the most noteworthy in literary history, for in it Aeschylus exhibited that great trilogy—the • digamemnon, Chaephoroe, and Eumenides—which remains to . all time an tmatupassed......