23 DECEMBER 1899, page 17

Books.

ARCHBISHOP BENSON'S LIFE.* Mn. ARTHUR BENSON has had a difficult work to do, and he has done it thoroughly well. To write the Life of an Arch- bishop of Canterbury in these days......

Wellington.*

" I CANNOT write my father's Life," said the second Duke of Wellington, "but I can at least see that the material is there for a biographer some day." And the second Duke could......