∵ _M. G. Lenotre is perhaps the most widely read of a group of modern French writers who have succeeded in treating history from a point of view at once scientific, dramatic and popular. He has made the Revolution his particular field of research, and deals not only with the most prominent figures of that period, but with many minor characters whose life-stories are quite as thrilling as anything in fiction. The localities in which these dramas were enacted are vividly brought before us in his works, for no one has reconstructed 18th century Paris with more picturesque and accurate detail. “The Daughter of Louis XVI.” is quite equal in interest and literary merit to any of the volumes which have preceded it, not excepting the famous Drama of Varennes. As usual, M. Lenotre draws his material largely from contemporary documents, and among the most remarkable memoirs reproduced in this book are “The Story of my Visit to the Temple” by Harmand de la Meuse, and the artless, but profoundly touching narrative of the unhappy orphaned Princess: “A manuscript written by Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France upon the captivity of the Princes and Princesses, her relatives, imprisoned in the Temple.” The illustrations are a feature of the volume and include the so-called “telescope” portrait of the Princess, sketched from life by an anonymous artist, stationed at a window opposite her prison in the tower of the Temple._ HUBERT AND JOHN VAN EYCK: Their Life and Work. By W. H. James Weale. With 41 Photogravure and 95 Black and White Reproductions. Royal 4to. £5 5_s._ net. Sir Martin Conway’s Note.