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the total effect rather stiff than rich. Dr. W. L. Courtney contributes the first instalment of a study of Demosthenes from the point of view of the principles of patriotism both good and excellently well timed. ' Rhodes and Parnell on Imperial Federation,' by Mr. J. G. Swift-MacNeill, includes some noteworthy correspondence. Of the other papers, seeing that they deal with the problems of the hour, we will only mention Mr. Sampson Morgan's 'Fruits for Health, Strength, and Longevity.' We will not here attempt to appraise its worth from a serious point of view; we only note that the enthusiastic writer is sometimes highly entertaining.

The, Nineteenth Century for July is a good number, albeit a large proportion of it is severely hortatory. Lord Cromer's article on ' Thinking Internationally ' needs no recommendation on our part. There are two studies in past history designed to throw light on the present both noteworthy : Dr. Murray's on

of M. G. de Rosco-Bogdanowicz on ' The " Royal Hand" of a Hohenzollern,' showing how, from their earliest appearance in history, the Hohen- zolierns have counted treaties but as " scraps of paper." Another interesting paper on somewhat the same lines is Mr. L. B. Namier's article on the Habsburgs and Mittel-Europa, though here the reference to the future is the main thing. The literary articles are unusually numerous. Mr. John Palmer contributes a rather clever paradoxical disquisition on ' The Present Disrepute of Shake- speare,' in which one chief feature is the decidedly exaggerated laudation of Maurice Morgann and his
 * Humbert's Invasion of Ireland in 1798,' and that

exposition of Shakespeare's method in the creation of character which does not substantially differ irom what most of us have thought these hundred years. Mr. H. M. Walbrook writes pleasantly -from personal knowledge about Henry Janiee and the English Theatre, and though the burden of these reminiscences is reproof, we are glad to have them. Miss Constance E. Maud also contributes personal memories these being of the Patriot Poets of Provence. They include the French trans- lation of a charming poem written by one of their number, the Premonstratensian Dom Xavier, who was driven out of Provence into exile in England. The problem of education receives weighty treat- ment in these pages. Mr. Edmond G. A. Holmes discourses of ' Discipline and Freedom,' working out to support of the Montessori system. Many readers to whom objections will occur will yet be grateful to him for a number of good hints. Mr. D. R. Pye writes the first paper under the heading Public Schools.' Physics Master at Winchester, he has a good word for the classics from the practical point of view of the schoolmaster. This is often neglected in the tirades against Greek and Latin now grown frequent, and we find it so in the vigorous denunciations and exhortations of Sir Harry H. Johnston's article on ' The Public Service and Education,' though with great part of it we find ourselves in thorough agreement.
 * Dramatic Character of Falstaff/and another is an
 * Reforms in Education ' on ' Science and the

The GonihUl for July contains three or four sketches of scenes in the vast theatre of war, which, not less clever and sympathetic than many we have seen before, yet call for no particular comment. Such are Mr. Frank Hoyt Gailor's ' An

American Ambulance in the Verdun Attack'; George A. Birmingham's ' Sweet Lavender '; Mr. Boyd Cable's ' Long Odds'; and ' The Spine of an Empire' by Major-General mii. It is otherwise with the vivid letters under the title "Dublin Days: The Rising' by Mrs. Hamilton Norway, which describe the spectator's view of that astonishing and terrible week better than any we have so far lighted upon, and with several incidents which will be new to many people. Miss Edith Sellers urges, in ' A War Saving worth Making,' that we should follow an example set us by the Relief Committee in Strassburg and, for their health's sake as well as for the sparing of our pockets, let our boys and girls run barefoot. The subject is not exactly one upon which people will seek an opinion from ' N. & Q.' Yet we venture to give her our support both for the excellent reasons she sets forth, and also because the footgear with which the children of the poor are usually provided is an outrage on the beauty and grace of childhood. We liked Lieur. F. J. Salmon's paper on 'The Spirit of France,' and still more Mr. Jeffery E. Jeffery's ' Bilfred.' ' Bilt'red,' we suspect, will prove to be the cause why this number ot The Cornhill finds a permanent place on more than one bookshelf, and we do not envy the person who reads it to the end without getting "a lump in his throat." Sir Henry Lucy, with ' A Peep at an Old Parliament,' makes a welcome reappearance; his fund of political and social anecdote seems quite inexhaustible. We must not omit mention of Lady Ritchie's sketch of the friendship between the Tennysons and Julia Cameron illustrated by quotations from many interesting letters, and by several good stories.

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