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CHARLOTTE MARY YOXOE Her Life and Letters. By Christabel Coleridge. The Literary Week. A sympathetic record of a simple, successful, and quiet " " life. I have endeavoured," says Miss Coleridge, to SEVERAL weighty books have been published daring the share with others my impressions, my knowledge, of week, many of them in two volumes. Charlotte Youge's Charlotte Yonge ... In one way the task has been biography has, we are glad to see, been compressed into easy, for so consistent, so harmonious a life has surely one volume. Although politics are scarcely referred to in been lived." The volume " " never been described, and rarely Mr. Molloy's The Sailor King he has taken two volumes opens with an autobiography which runs to one hundred to tell the story of the seven years' reign of William IV. and twenty pages, and describes with some detail the Two volumes were also necessary for the late Robert formative influences of the writer's early surroundings and Adamson's "The Development of Modern Philosophy: friends. Towards the end of the autobiography we have with other Lectures and Essays." Among the with John Keble and his interesting some account of the intercourse " books of the week we note the following : wife and sister which formed for Miss Yonge the great conscious influence of her life." The volume is illustrated WORDSWORTH. By Walter Raleigh. by portraits. A critical study of Wordsworth's work and its tendencies " Prof. Raleigh's has been to and influence. purpose To the latest volume in the revised edition of Tolstoy's the of Wordsworth with a favourable approach poetry works Mr. Aylmer Maude contributes an interesting ; to attempt to read it as he would have predisposition preface. The volume contains Tolstoy's three plays : to be read, and to find in it what he wished it attempted "The Power of Darkness," "The First Distiller," and his to express." The author concludes introduction with " Fruits of Culture." When Mr. Maude said to Tolstoy, : of strenuous ' these words "A lifetime poetic energy "and what about The First Distiller'?" he "only from oblivion or ' cannot be recaptured fully understood. waved his hand contemptuously, to show that The First the be vain and fantastic, then ' " But if attempt wholly Distiller was not worth talking about." The Power of must be content to be standards " Wordsworth judged by Darkness has been acted in most European countries, he and to be valued for reasons that have that repudiated, but never in . Perhaps so moral and terrible a to do with the inspiration and motive of his work." little play would hardly find a welcome in London at present. "Fruits of Culture," on the other hand, as Mr. Maude SIR HENRY LAYARD : Autobiography and Letters. 2 vols. " says, is a play brimful of laughter and merriment, and Edited by the Hon. William N. Bruce, with a chapter enough by itself to refute the accusation, sometimes on Sir Henry Layard's parliamentary career by the Right brought against Tolstoy, that he lacks humour." These Hon. Sir . Sir Henry Layard was born in three plays were written in the years 1886-1889, so that Paris in 1817, and died in London in 1894. "He won they belong to the later years of Tolstoy's activity. The distinction as traveller, archaeologist, politician, of the edition the translators hope to diplomatist, remaining volumes " student of the Fine Arts." When Sir Henry retired from complete at the rate of two a year. Each sentence," the public service he set to work on an account of his life. says Mr. Maude, "and almost every word has to bo These volumes carry us down to 1861, on the eve of his carefully weighed, and, Tolstoy having written more that departure for Madrid. The gaps left in Sir Henry's 3,000,000 words, the task is one which, under the most narrative have been filled, as far as possible, by extracts favourable conditions, must occupy a number of years, from 'his correspondence. and cannot be completed by my wife and myself alone." A 2