17 JUNE 1899, page 20

Shakespeare In France.*

"SHAKESPEARE wanted art," said Ben Jonson, and Voltaire, with half an apology for his qualified admiration, declared that the author of Hamlet was " without the least spark of......

The Solitary Summer.* The Author Of Elizabeth And Her German

Garden has written a second book of the same description which is even more charming than the first. Unlike so many of its kind, it is not written to instruct, nor, indeed, for......