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as the news travelled through Britain. We seem to see the decked windows and the illumination of the street", to hear the church bells ringing their merriest peals, and the volleys fired by the frroops. Palliser sneaked out of Portsmouth at five in the morning and sought refuge at. the Admiralty, but the mob burst the gates, smashed all the windows. " and Lord Sandwich and his mistress escaped half dressed through the private door which, up till a few years ago, afforded access from the Admiralty garden to the Horse Guards' Parade." The story of the unfortunate Andre, about whom so much has appeared in ' N. & Q.,' is told with sympathetic pathos. The court - martial that tried him, Sir George records, had Greene for its president ; there were twelve American generals and brigadiers, besides Baron von Steuben and the Marquis de Lafayette. " No court-martial on record has been composed of more respectable elements ; and none could honestly have returned a different verdict."

Washington had no alternative but to approve of the finding of the Board, and on the 2nd of October, 1770, wearing the full uniform of a British officer, as one who was not ashamed of having faced the extreme of peril in order to serve his King, Andre told the commander of the escort that he was reconciled to death, but that he detested the mode. " It will," he said, "be but a momentary pang," "and he never Spoke again, except to ask the bystanders to bear witness that he met his fate like a brave miin. His youth and grace, his sedate and dauntless bearing, and his evident nobleness f character, evoked the admiration and com- passion of all true soldiers throughout the Ame- tican army."

We cannot close without advising our readers to become possessed of this delightful volume ; and we are glad to know that the second is well on its way. We have but one suggestion to jnake : a more frequent reference to the year in iwhich events occur would be helpful, or still better would be the year placed at the top of the page. Perhaps the author will consider this in further editions. At the end of the volume is a fceneral map of the American colonies between the St. Lawrence and the Savannah rivers.

The Fortnightly Review begins with Mr. Thomas Hardy's ' God's Funeral,' a poem which has decidedly a ring of the last century about it. The political articles deal principally with foreign I affairs. Of these the most entertaining is that I on ' Lord Kitchener in Egypt.' The writer has ' several good stories to tell of Lord Kitchener's i methods as British Agent at Cairo, and of the effect of his personality on the Egyptian mind in the present rather delicate situation of aftairs ; but the scope of his paper extends much further than the telling of a good story. Mr. Saint Xihal Singh attempts to estimate ' The Net Result of the King's Indian Tour ' in an appreciative article, which arrives at the conclusion that, though overshadowed by the more startling measures of the transfer of the seat of Government and the repartition of Bengal, it is the King's utterances on the subject of education which are likely to survive in the memory of the people as his greatest achievement among them. Capt. Battine on ' Russian Ascendancy in Europe and Asia ' gives a striking account of Russia's present

position recovered from the calamity of the Manchurian War, in " the heyday of youth and energy." Mr. Sidney Low criticizes the action of the " Most Christian Powers " in their relationr to the East. Mr. S. Gelberg traverses the state- ments made by Baron Heyking, Russian Consul- General in London, concerning the Jews in Russia. The two literary articles are a reprint, verbatim el literatim, of a pamphlet on ' The Miraculous Power of Clothes,' published by William Mentz of Philadelphia in 1772, with a few introductory paragraphs by Mr. T. C. Callicott, and a very- pleasing paper by Mr. W. L. Courtney on ' Sappho and Aspasia ' ; he applies to the traditions concerning these women that sort of detached and sympathetic good sense which Boissier applied to the last heroes of the Roman republic in ' Ciceron et ses Amis.'

The Cornhill Magazine for March is largely given up to reminiscences of Laboucbere. Sir Henry Lucy, continuing his ' Sixty Years in the Wilderness,' prints some half-score of his letters, three of them taking us back to Lord Randolph Churchill's sudden resignation in 1886 ; one a most amusing letter of advice to Sir Henry during his editorship of The Daily News ; and the others written in the summer of 1886, on the question of Gladstone's resignation after the country had rejected Home Rule. Mr. G. W. E. Russell gives a sketch of Labouchere as he appeared to those who knew him in the House, rather than as an intimate friend, and brings out very effec- tively those qualities which made his personality at once so striking and so enigmatic. ' The Birds of the Close.' by Canon Vaughan. and ' The Temples of the Hills,' by Mr. W. H. Hudson,, are studies of bird-life, each kindly, direct, and picturesque. Mr. Hudson will have used his popular and delightful pen to good purpose if he succeeds in stirring up a landowner here and there to prevent the conventional slaughtering of wild things by gamekeepers. Mr. T. C. Fowle's description of the whirling ' Darweeshes of Damascus ' is an unusually interesting contribu- tion, which has yet to be concluded ; and we must find room to mention ' The Jamiad r Fragments from an Unpublished Epic,' which has some lines that are really funny.

Ix The Burlington Magazine for March we get an extremely interesting paper, by Mr. A. K. Coomaraswamy, on ' Rajput Paintings.' By " Rajput " the writer means what in more ordi- nary parlance would be called Hindu. This, art has been but imperfectly distinguished from Mughal and Persian work, in contrast to which besides the difference of origin Mr. Coomara- swamy brings out the facts that Rajput paintings, though on a small scale, belong essentially to the fresco type ; that they are religious in character, whereas Mughal art is secular and eclectic ; and. again, are for the most part anony- mous, springing directly from the folk-imagina- tion. These positions are elucidated by very delightful illustrations. M. A. Bredius discusses the attribution of ' Elizabeth Bas ' to Rembrandt r Mr. Lionel Cust sets forth reasons for the establish- ment of a Museum of Oriental Art ; and Mr. Roger Fry gives us his first paper on the exhibition of the Early Venetian School at the Burlington, Fine Arts Club : the legend of S. Mamas, as depicted by Michele Giambono.