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Mr. Francis Gribble goes on to ' Chateaubriand's Second Love, s who was much more interesting than his first. Mr. Herbert Trench has a poem ' On Romney Marsh at Sunrise,' which is striking, but mot wholly satisfactory. Mr. Walter Sickert has the most interesting and best-informed article we have read in the magazines this month, an obviously expert criticism of 'The New Life of Whistler.' His views deserve wide circulation, for we are .assured of their soundness. Dr. W. S. Bruce heads his article ' Aims and Objects of Modern Polar Exploration,' but seems to us to establish only a poor case for the practical utility of these expedi- tions. Mr. St. J. Hankin in 'The Need for an Endowed Theatre in London ' asks for a patron who will render it possible for a play to have a fair chance of being tested by the public. At present, he points out, under the usual manager, a play, if it is not to be run at a loss, "must attract some eighty thousand people in the first three months of its existence." He adds that no one can be sure whether a play will attract or not. Doubtless this is so; but we conceive that there are plenty of people with better judgment than the present managers of our drama, or the chosen who advise them. The number concludes with 'The Letter- Book,' a clever short story by Mrs. Dudeney, which maintains the excellent standard of such things fostered by The, Fortnightly.

The National Review is great, of course, on the Kaiser's recent interviews as published in this country and the United States, which give some colour to its rooted antipathy for the German Emperor. ' M.P.' has an extraordinarily frank , article on the Tory leaders who will have to be dropped when the party comes in, on account of their failure, weakness, or lessened reputation. Mr. Charles Whibley writes on ' London ' with regard to the new edition of Stow. Mr. A. Maurice Low in ' American Affairs,' speaks in high terms of the qualities of the new President, and notes his differences from Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. F. S. Oliver is more clever than convincing in his dis- covery of " Whiggism " at the present day. There is an interesting interview with the President of the Grand Trunk Pacific. The line is unusually expensive because it avoids .heavy gradients, but the money will be returned in increased hauling power in the engines. An enormous traffic and export of wheat is contemplated. It is expected that Prince Rupero, the town-site of which will be sold to the public next spring, will become a great port, and it is said to possess a harbour comparable to that of Sydney, with which it is to be connected by a good line of steamships.

IN The Cornhill Mr. Lucy continues his lively and informing reminiscences. Sir George Tre- velyan's speech to the recent collection of publishers, booksellers, and authors is entitled ' A Budget of Memories,' and is good reading. Sir Charles Dar- ling's verses ' In the New Forest 'are not particu- larly distinguished, though impeccable in style. Miss Virginia Stephen has an excellent subject for review in ' The Holland House Circle.' Mr. Leonard Huxley gives his reminiscences of Lewis ' Campbell, which are pleasantly appreciative, though in some cases trivial. Campbell was a man of much mental vigour, and radiated influence, as professors ought to do ; but he was not a first-class Greek scholar. His little book of Greek verse -which is mentioned uses metrical expedients which

the best of classical scholars disdain. Canon Beeching has a Provincial Letter from King's Lynn which is good, but not up to his best mark. Miss Jane Findlater contributes an excellent Scotch story entitled ' The Bairn-keeper.'

IN The Burlington Magazine the frontispiece con- sists of three charming young heads by Crariach preserved in the Truro Museum. They are free from the stiffness pt his pictures which we have seen abroad. The first editorial article points out that in the Commission on Ancient Monuments recently appointed the Government has officially ignored the Society of Antiquaries, to which the scheme owes its inception. There is, further, a severe criticism of the ' Reorganization at South Kensington.' There is a good deal of value con- cerning Oriental art Persian faience, Oriental carpet patterns, and Chinese and Japanese paint- ing. Mr. Weale continues his noteworthy and well-illustrated Studies of Lancelot Blondeel. Mr. A. J. Finberg notices ' A Landscape by Turner,' and Mr. E. A. Jones 'Some Historical Silver Maces,' two of which belong to the Trustees of Shakespeare's Birthplace at Stratford. Another belongs to the regalia at Holy rood, and a fourth was the silver-gilt mace of the old Irish House of Commons, being now in the collection of Viscount Massereene. All these maces are illustrated by admirable photo- graphs. There are also several illustrations of pictures of note in the section 'Art in America.'

AN Oxford edition of the works of Charles and Mary Lamb in prose and verse is to be published immediately by Mr. Henry Frowde. There will be two volumes the first consisting of miscellaneous prose, ' Elia,' and ' Last Essays of Elia,' and the second of tales for children, poems, and dramatic works ; arid an Oxford India-paper edition in one volume will also be issued. The editor is Mr. Thomas Hutchinson, a contributor to our columns, who looked after the Wordsworth and the Shelley volumes in " The Oxford Poets."

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