nizes it as thoroughly enlightened and judicious. In the earlier volume Mr. Matthews dealt mainly with the actors and the boards; in this he takes wider ground and treats of the authors. After a short preliminary sketch of the Romantic movement, which will probably teach the reader more than Gautier's so-called history, he opens his gallery with Victor Hugo. To the inveterate Hugolater it is probable that his estimate of the author of Les Misérables as a dramatist will seem inadequate; but it is noteworthy that the poverty of Hugo's per sonages as actual characters, despite their "bombard phrase," receives striking confirmation from the experiences of one of the greatest of modern French actors. After studying parts in both Molière and Hugo, he arrives at the conclusion that Molière's are real men and women, and Hugo's mouthing puppets. No criticism can convey a clearer condemnation than this, and it is wholly on the side of Mr. Matthews. Next to Hugo comes the elder Dumas, and the account of the "kind old gallant Alexandre" is one with which we cordially agree, bringing out vividly as it does the extraordinary verve and headlong movement of his dramas. Nothing can be better than Dumas's own words of his work: "All I wanted was four scenes, four boards, two actors, and a passion." The studies of Augier and of Dumas the younger-that "moral philosopher who so calmly surveys mankind from the summit of a preface," as the author wittily puts it seem to us to be admirable, that of Augier especially. On Scribe, and Sardou, and Feuillet, and Labiche-the last of whom deserves to be better known in England-there are also excellent papers; and the book winds up with a chapter entitled "Zola and the Present Tendencies of French Drama." So far as we are aware, there is no other work in which this theme is systematically treated; certainly no English work in which it is handled with so much animation, critical straightforwardness, and workmanlike mastery of the material. It has this, too, in particular, that it is thoroughly practical, and looks upon French plays as things to be acted and seen rather than read. If we have any fault to find with these pleasant pages it is that they are almost too thickly sown with the sparkle of epigram and illustration. But to this Mr. Matthews would probably reply that to write of the French stage and be dull is a thing impossible-at all events to him; and that the critic who would have it otherwise is (in the words of Izaak Walton) "a severe, sowr-complexioned man," whom he "disallows to be a competent judge." Doncaster Charities, Past and Present. By Charles Jackson. (Worksop, White.) THIS is a useful manual for the information of all who may be presumed to be directly or indirectly interested in the endowments with which it deals. Mr. Jackson has exhibited a laudable industry in hunting up information from all available sources, and has not failed to lay the volumes of "N. & Q." under contribution. The book, however, though very carefully put together, can scarcely be regarded as attractive to any but the inhabitants of Doncaster itself. They may be congratulated on possessing so satisfactory a handbook to their local charities. It would be well if every large town in the kingdom were furnished with a similar book of reference, compiled as intelligently and issued in such a handsome form. Even the photographic portraits in this volume will be pleasant mementoes by-and-by, when the posterity of living men will wish to see what their ancestors looked like; and if the fashion of enlarging the buildings of all educational establishments continues to prevail for another generation or two, the Doncastrians of 1990 will be amused to look back upon the lithograph of their Grammar School as it existed a century before. It is to be feared that the great bulk of those picturesque endowments, of which Mr. Jackson gives so many curious pieces of information, will be swept away ruthlessly by our charity reformers before many years are past. Such endowments as can plead little more for themselves than that they have a claim on the antiquary for respect and affection are inevitably doomed, and their death knell has been sounded. It was well that Mr. Jackson should speak a word in their favour before they are swallowed up in that huge burial-ground of decayed charities, where no epitaph is ever allowed or any tears shed for the departed the dismal cemetery of the Charity Commission. Holidays in the Tyrol. By Walter White. (Tauchnitz.) MR. WALTER WHITE has written a lively sketch of his rambles in the Tyrol east of the Brenner, where for twelve summers he has spent his holidays. He records no hazardous adventures on the snow, nor does he tell of the discovery or ascent of virgin peaks. He has neglected these exciting but somewhat hackneyed topics, and prefers to study the life and character of an unsophisricated people dwelling in an unfrequented country. The result is that he has put together a pleasing literary mosaic of varied colours, with here a piece of gossip, there a touch of character; here a bit of description, there an amusing incident. The last chapter, which has not been previously published, contains an account of Obladis, a favourite resort of the Viennese. THE life of the Hon. Henry Erskine, which was announced some time ago as in course of preparation by Lieut. Colonel Fergusson, will take the shape of a memoir of the champion of the "independence of the Scottish Bar," with notices of certain of his kinsfolk and of his time, rather than of a life, strictly speaking. Several details connected with the career of Lord Chancellor Erskine, his brother, not given by Lord Campbell, will be included. MM. Goupil & Co. have been successful in their reproduction for this work of the scarce mezzotint of "Harry Erskine," after Sir H. Raeburn. her acceptance of the dedication of Mr. Tuer's forthHER MAJESTY has been graciously pleased to signify coming book, Bartolozzi and his Works. MR. C. HUTT (Clement's Inn Gateway) sends us another of his interesting catalogues. 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