Bacon

Abstract

THE handsome volume before us, which forms the fifth volume of Dean Church's collected works, is a reprint (with, apparently, few or no alterations) of the small book on “Bacon,” which originally appeared in Mr. Morley's series of “English Men of Letters.” Like every literary composition which falls from the pen of its author, it is a model of candour in treatment, and of gracefulness in style. Other accounts of Bacon may be more profound, more detailed, or more appreciative, but certainly none is likely to be more interesting or attractive to the general reader. Bacon. By R. W. Church, Dean of St. Paul's. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1888.)