22 SEPTEMBER 1906, page 19

Renascence Portraits.* Professor Van Dyke, In A Frank And...

preface, states that he wrote his book with "a desire to be interesting": that is to say, he wrote it rather for the general reader than for scientific students of history. He......

The Life And Times Of Descartes.*

Miss HALDANE'S interesting biography of Descartes will be welcomed by the student of philosophy as well as by the general reader. With regard to the latter, she laboured under a......