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this education, a career which Miss Low considers undesirable, and, as " only a very few " are fitted for higher intellectual work and a teaching career, she suggests that domestic service with its status raised is the right course. Mr. G. W. E. Russell writes on the political situation, the election pledges and performances of the Government.

THE Fortnightly Beview for this month is dis- tinguished by a poem in which Mr. Swinburne celebrates the Death of Karl Blind with the glow which he always brings to the study of freedom and the sea. The able writer known as Calchas deals, in 'The Witch of the Atlas,' with the troubles in Morocco. Katie Macdonald Goring has a little personal study of ' The Friends of Living Creatures and John Buskin ' which is admirably vivid, and includes some of the letters the Master loved to pour on his fortunate correspondents. There is a view of the Bedford Park of former days, when it held wild spaces for children to wander in. 'East and West in Council,' by Mary Crawford Eraser, presents in dialogue some interesting opinions of Japanese thinkers of to-day. Mr. Alfred Fellows has an important paper on ' The Trades Disputes Act and Freedom of Contract,' which is a solid summary of the main points at issue, with an appendix of the legal cases. ' Women's Rights in Realms Afar' is a clever piece of writing by Mr. John Davidson, whose work is always striking from its boldness or originality. Current questions are discussed in ' Army Reserves on a Militia Basis,' 'The Balkan Problems,' and 'The Irish Priests.' Mrs. John Lane has a fair chance of attacking ' Misplaced Monuments ' in London, which is un- kind to all sorts of materials in our Northern climate. We are too stingy even to keep gilt decently bright. Sir James Graham is a lesser light in politics, and Mr. F. A. Channing overrates liis insight, though he has made an interesting article out of his criticism of Mr. Parker's recent bio- graphy of this year. Mr. H. W. Nevinson writes witn admirable vigour on ' The Angola Slave Trade,' one of those disgraces which shock the civilized world without, unfortunately, moving it to active and effectual protest. He writes that " one-fifth of all the cocoa and chocolate we take is now pro- duced for us by a form of black labour as truly slavery as anything in our own possessions before the emancipation, or on the plantations of the Southern States before the American Civil War." Mr. E. H. D. Sewell shows real insight in his article on 'Cricket of 1907.' Altogether this is an excep- tionally interesting number of a monthly always worth close inspection.

THE Cornhill has an authoritative article on ' The British Museum Reading Room ' by Sir E. Maunde Thompson, which is at once light and learned. One of the features of the establishment was a thief who stole overcoats once a week, and even secured that of the detective set to watch him. He was not discovered ; but the reading-ticket of a suspect was not renewed when it expired, and overcoats ceased to vanish. Mr. H. G. Hutchinson deals with ' Sir Spencer Walpole as a Country Gentleman,' a part which he filled excellently. Mr. J. H. Yoxall combines picturesque history and travel in an article ' Of Certain Bygones in France.' We do not particularly care for his style, but he will succeed, we think, in arousing the interest of the ordinary reader. Lucknow, in Mr. W, H. Fitchett's studies ' Amongst the Mutiny Cities of India,' is a first-rate

subject, and the writer is equal' to the occasion Ihe comment on the addition to Sir Henry Law-

sketches of the Mutiny will do something to make the splendid heroism of our countrymen better known to the " reading public," which is singularly
 * rence s epitaph is justified. We hope that these

i ignorant of all that pertains to India. ' A Romance at Lisconnel, by Jane Barlow, is, as might be expected, a piece of excellent writing and discern- ment. A Fortnight of Failure' is a pleasin^ account of a holiday spent in the pursuit of deer. Ihe author, "Cygnus," has put much of his delight in Highland scenery on to paper. Mr. W. P. James has a well-written article on books of travel, some- what affectedly entitled 'Changing Skies and the Delectable Mountains ' but in six pages not much can be said : he should have had at least twice the space. Mr. A. C. Benson deals this month with friendship,' and succeeds in being thoughtful, as usual, though he does not strike us as either original or brilliant.

The Burlington Magazine opens with a coloured reproduction of Reynolds's 'Nelly O'Brien,' a masterpiece which ought to have a wide appeal in spite of the fact that the face of the sitter is not beautiful. The writer of 'The Case for Modern, Painting' is both able and trenchant in dealing with the ideals of modern Germany. Mr. Tavener Perry writes on 'The Spires of Rome,' which do< not fill us with enthusiasm. Dr. W. Martin's ' The Life of a Dutch Artist ' has reached its sixth part 'How the Painter sold his Work,' and with its admirable illustrations is a brilliant evocation of the past which was well worth translation. The rendering has appeared from time to time in The Burlington since 1905, and will, we hope, be finally available in book form. ' The Picture Gallery :: Interior,' by David Teniers the younger, shows canvases as carefully fitted together and over- crowded as in our own Royal Academy. A drawing by Rembrandt of ' A Village Street,' which recalls the wonderful sketches reproduced in the last number, well deserves the full page accorded to it. It is a marvel of suggestion and execution. A ' Madonna and Child ' by Antonio da Solario, and two drawings by Carl von Vogelstein, an early ' Queen Victoria ' and ' John Gibson,' the sculptor,, are among the other illustrations. We note also 'The Abbey of S. Berton' by Bonington and a fragment of a cartoon by Raphael in the University Galleries, Oxford, the head of a horse which rivals Greek perfection. Under ' Art in America ' a first article deals with ' Recent Additions to the Collec- tion of Mr. Henry C. Frick,' who possesses a Turner, a Corot, and a Rousseau which would be distinguished in any gathering of pictures. We receive The Burlington with increasing pleasure, and think that, learned as it is, it has something in each number which appeals to the untutored reader of taste.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER. Mr. G. E. Cox, of Leyton, sends us his list,. Part 2. The prices being low, carriage is not in- cluded. Among Leadenhall Press publications we find 'Fulham Old and New,' by C. J. Feret, 3 vols., large 4to, 500 illustrations, a spotless new copy, 15*. (this was published at 3/. 3fc); and 'Lon- don City,' by W. Luker, 12s. 6rf. (published at 21. 2s., and afterwards advanced to 21. 10s. : a copy of the scarce farthing edition is included). Other