tune is given in an Introduction by the Earl of Kerry and a brilliant preliminary "study" by Philip Guedalla. Our Comte de Flahault was the reputed son of a Comte de Flahault of the ancient nobility, who in 1792 paid the penalty of his birth by the guillotine. But there is practically no doubt that he was the offspring of a liaison between the great Talleyrand (in 1785, at the threshold of his career) and the Comtesse. It was Talleyrand who procured Flahault his first commission just before Marengo, and who paved the way for his preferments under Napoleon and Louis Philippe; Talleyrand, also, who saved him from molestation after Fontainebleau and after Waterloo. Now for Romance Number Two. Flahault, who had the best looks and the most elegant manners of all the exquisites of the First Empire, caught the eye of Hortense Beauharnais, daughter of the Empress Josephine by her first marriage and wife of Napoleon's brother Louis, King of Holland. The offspring of the consequent liaison was a boy whom the world was invited to call the Comte de Morny (created Duc de Morny in 1862 by the Emperor Napoleon III). Thus Morny was half-brother of the Emperor Napoleon III. The polite world knew all about these relationships, and apparently nobody was scandalized. However unwillingly, one has to admit that the almost unexampled good fortune of the Comte de Flahault was due largely to his mother's sins and his own. For it seems to be true that Talleyrand dearly loved his illegitimate son, and that Louis Napoleon not only cherished a warm fraternal feeling for Morny but was also drawn to Flahault by reason of the latter's peculiar relations with his mother. But the Comte did not merely play in luck; he was truly a man of mark, as appears from Romance Number Three. From 1815 to 1827 he lived in voluntary exile in England, and there married Miss Margaret Elphinstone, daughter of Admiral Lord Keith and after the latter's death Baroness Keith in her own right. The lady was a great beauty, had received proposals from the Duke of Clarence, Lord Cochrane, and Lord Byron; and the Comte married her in the teeth of the Admiral, of the French Ambassador (from the Bourbon Court), and of the British Regent. No wonder the old Admiral opposed the marriage of his daughter with Napoleon's devoted aide-de-camp. As Commander of the Channel Fleet, he had received Napoleon's surrender at Plymouth and had arranged his despatch to St. Helena. But the old man was in the end com GERMAN ARMY OFFICERS' FIELD GLASSES 8 power $9.85 Postpaid Genuine German War glasses purchased at exceptionally advantageous rates of exchange. Manufactured by most prominent of German optical factories. Many were received direct from the Allied Reparations Commission. 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That he was a man of singular candor and probity sufficiently appears from the tone of his letters and memoranda printed in this volume, and from the fact that he was completely trusted by all with whom he came in contact, including some of the most notable men of England. The peculiar value of this book is that it brings into proper relief a hitherto neglected personality of great historic and romantic interest. The letters which furnish the raison d'être of the volume are mostly exchanges between Flahault and Morny or letters, from Flahault to his wife. They are not brilliant lettersprinted by themselves they would not be very interesting; but, through the interpretation and setting furnished by the Earl of Kerry and Mr. Guedalla, they rise from their ashes, so to speak, they pulse and throb, they serve to humanize our impression of that drab period of French politics 1848-52 which includes the famous coup d'état. As for the value of the "new information" they throw on the coup d'état, that has been overstated by the critics. Flahault's references to the great Emperor are valuable as coming from a man so intimately associated with him, a man of distinction and high honor. He "The Book Lovers' Corner" always speaks of the Emperor as of a LIBRARY ASSOCIATION East 25th St., New York City. We are a mail order house, supplying books at lower than second-hand prices such as the famous American Nation Series of Albert B. Hart, LL.D., published at $56, for $18.50 (new, packed in a wooden box), History of Travel in America, by Seymour Dunbar, with 412 fascinating illustrations, published at $12, for $5.75. Book of the Presidents (of the U. S.), published at $25, for $4.95, etc., etc. We can supply any books in print at the lowest market prices, and have a department for searching out of print books. Write for our special sale list, No. 173-A. HERBERT L. 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Our "intellectuals" had to reverse themselves, so they invented a number of fine phrases to explain their action in going to war just like the despised militarists. From their embarrassing position arose the need for all the lovely phrases about "making the world safe for democracy." They had been unwilling to fight, had these intellectuals, for the simple need of defending their country; there must be something newer and "finer" than that. A mere militarist was willing to fight for that. In the end, it turned out not to be "the war to end war"-nobody but these intellectuals thought it was-and so they have been writing articles, novels, and stories ever since to tell how "disillusioned" they are now. "Plumes" is another of these novels. HUMOR TWISTED TALES. By Christopher Ward. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $1.75. Parodies of Edgar Lee Masters, Gene Stratton Porter, Zona Gale, May Sinclair, Willa Cather, and other writers of fiction, American and English. 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