6 MAY 1899, page 15

The Autobiography Of A Child.* It Would Have Been More

satisfactory if this very singular book had come into the world accompanied by some sort ef definition of the class of work it is supposed by its author to belong to. But as no......

Books.

SAINT-SIMON.* SAINT-SIMON is the greatest writer of memoirs that the world has seen ; as a historian he justly takes his place beside Thucydides and Tacitus. It has long been......