30 AUGUST 1913, page 21

A Great Coquette : Madame Recamier.•

THIS clever and entertaining book will be found well worth reading, though M. Joseph Turquan's lively and peculiarly French style loses some of its original effect in......

The Cottage Problem.*

Mn. Anoarsoia's book is a very fair example of the literature which has been devoted to one of the most difficult problems of modern rural economics. How is the labourer to be......

An Exiled King.*

Tux curious and unhappy story of King Gustaf Adolf IV. of Sweden is here told almost in the fashion of a novel, but a very long novel, for it fills two large volumes of three......