30 MAY 1914, page 21

From Naval Cadet To Admiral.*

Sta ROBERT Halms prefaces his narrative with the modest hope that it may show "what a very pleasant, healthy, and engrossing life it is possible to enjoy in a man-of-war," and......

A Rival Of Bernier.*

WIIEN the Roi Soleil was gathering into his own hands the threads of government, and was becoming the social, adminis- trative, and military head of an Imperial France, thereby......

A New Volume In The " Loeb Library."' The Editors

of the "Loeb Library" have done well to add to their publications this very interesting book. J3arlaam and Ioasaph is a Christian tract written in the eighth century by some one......

Vices In Virtues:i' "from Their Character, These Essays,"...

author of Vices in Virtues, and other Vagaries, "might be expected to be preceded by a note acknowledging the kindness of some editor in allowing them to be reprinted; but they......