19 JANUARY 1895, page 18

Gustavus Iii. And His Contemporaries.* There Is A Touch Of

contempt in the description applied by Carlyle to the third Gustavus of Sweden. "A shining sort of man," he called him, mach in the same way as one might describe a paste buckle......

Sir Victor Brooke.*

THE book before us is a little hard to class, being a record of one who was essentially one of those "private persons," as they would have been called in a classic day, whose......