12 MAY 1888, page 21

The Scandals Of French History.*

A PERUSAL of these nine volumes may safely be recommended by way of sobering draught to any Frenchman preparing to cele- brate the centenary of the French Revolution with......

Peasant Life In Tuscany.*

AMID the unceasing din of the Irish Land War, with its wearisome squabbles about tenants' rights and landlords' wrongs, it is refreshing to turn to a book like that before us,......