1 MAY 1909, page 21

A Popula.13, Preacher.*

THE heading of this review means•no kind of disrespect. It is a disparagement only when the personality of the man betrays some inconsistency. No one can say that of Canon......

Mr. Lecky's Essays.* Op The Fourteen Essays Contained In...

volume, the most interesting is, perhaps, "Formative Influences," which was originally published in the Forum. It is a fragment of autobiography, and we can but wish that it......

Woman In India..t Mita Dann, Already Favourably Known To...

readers by some excellent fiction dealing with Indian life—Captain Desmond, V.C., for instance—bas given us here a very interest- ing book. Its contents reach beyond the title ;......

Novels.

THE WHITE SISTEitt MANY readers will shale the regret awakened by the appear- ance of Mr. Crawford's latest novel. The late Mr. Bagehot in his essay on "Shakespeare the Man"......