6 OCTOBER 1906, page 5

The Nieces Of Cardinal Mazarin.*

IT was about four years after his rise to power, quite as much by personal influence with the Queen-Regent as by political talent, that the Italian Cardinal, so well hated in......

The Peasant Revolt.*

THE late Mr. J. R. Green in one of his least inspired moments declared that the ablest of the Plantagenets was King John. If wasted opportunities and the alternation of courage......