11 MAY 1895, page 20

Irish Songs.* It Is Impossible To Enter Into The Spirit

of Irish song without entering into the life of the Irish people. Strangely enough, Matthew Arnold, in spite of his own somewhat restrained lyre, has sympathised most thoroughly......

Francis Of Assisi.*

THE gap between the medireval mind and the modern theory of life is not likely to be bridged by the present volume ; we cannot look upon it as a history, but as a polished......