24 DECEMBER 1910, page 25

Novels.

THE McARDLE PEERAGE.f IT is perhaps too bold a step to hail in this unknown writer a new political satirist. Besides, "satire" is too harsh a word for the genial, if incisive,......

Boor - Sellers.*

THE oldest book in the world is certainly the Egyptian Boole of the Dead, even if we allow the name to the inscription- covered rocks of Assyria and Babylonia ; hence it follows......

Sir Kenelm Digby.* Tars Book, With Its Curious Receipts And

quaint pieces of inci- dental advice on cookery and health, was well worth reprinting. Miss Macdonell has written a very interesting introduction, in which she gives us a sketch......

Professor Baillie's Translation Of Hegel.*

AnouT midnight on the 13th of October, 1806, Hegel sat in his room at Jena finishing his Phenomenologie der Geist, and much disturbed about Napoleon, who was preparing for the......