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[9 th S. I. APKIL 9, '98.

A view of the Pharos of Alexandria is given as the first of ' The Seven Wonders of the World.' ' Heroes of the Life-saving Service' is continued. A spring number of Scribner's appears with a beautifully designed prize coyer in colours, by Mr. Albert Herter, representing girls with lilies. Senator Lodge continues his ' Story of the Revolution,' exhibiting Washington's memorable retreat through New Jersey, which is finely illustrated. ' A Legend of Welly Legrave ' is a very striking Canadian tale. Another chapter of Mr. Wyckoll's strange and dis- agreeable experiences with ' The Workers ' is no less stimulating than those by which it has been preceded. A view of ' The Police Station Break- fast ' forms an appropriate illustration to this. 1 Letreis, Brittany, though it depicts no existing spot, gives a good account by pen and pencil or Breton life. The Pall Mall has a capital account, by Lord Savile, of Rufford Abbey, abundantly illustrated by photographs. ' The Evolution of Comfort in Railway Travelling ' has much interest. We see, however, no pens, without either cover or seats, such as we seem to remember in Yorkshire before 1840. ' An Artist in Antwerp ' is brilliantly illustrated. ' Five Weeks in Jerusalem ' will be useful to many an intending traveller. Sir Walter Besant is profoundly interesting in his ' South London.' A second instalment of ' The Record of the Gurkhas' is not less striking than the earlier. In a quite admirable number of the Comhill Mr. Sidney Lee's article on ' Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton ' arrests attention. It is to some extent a continuation of a previous article in the Fortnightly, disposing of the claim of Lord Pembroke to be the Mr. W. H. of Shakspeare's sonnets, and maintaining that Lord Southampton was the patron to whom they were dedicated. That he is the only known patron of Shakspeare to whom his declara- tions apply can, Mr. Lee holds, "be proved with almost mathematical certainty." As a study of Southampton alone, and of his influence over the works of the late Elizabethan and Jacobean times, the essay has high interest and value. The fourth of the Rev. W. H. Fitchett's ' Fights for the Flag ' describes, with the author's customary picturesque- ness and force, Rodney and De Grasse at the Battle of the Saints. ' The Groom's Story,' by Dr. Conan Doyle, is admirably vigorous. ' Pages from a Private Diary' have all their old and delightful sauciness and banter: ' The Primate of the Wits,' concern- ing whom one writes in Temple Bar, is, of course. Sydney Smith. ' Birds of a Herefordshire Parish, by M. G. W., would please us more if the writer did not own to the slaughter of jays. ' The Tea-Table in the Eighteenth Century' has an agreeable anti- quarian flavour, and records practices once common, now all but forgotten. In Macmillan's, ' The Oldest Guide-Book in the World,' by Mr. Charles Whibley, deals with Mr. J. G. Frazer's translation of Pau- sanias, and inspires us with a warm desire to see the book. 'The Spanish Bull -Fight in France' shows, what we have long held to be true, that the exhibition is no less disgusting and degrading than in Spain. ' On Circuit at the Cape furnishes a new crop of bar stories. ' Mirabeau in London ' and ' Recollections of a Black Brunswicker ' may both be read with interest. Prof. J. W. Hales sends to the Gentleman's the first instalment of a capital paper on Shakspeare's ' Tempest,' in which he expresses views as to Shakspeare s patron coin- ciding ?ith those of Mr. Sidney Lee. ' Two Painters of the Sixteenth Century' are Dosso Dossi the

Ferrarese and Lorenzo Lotto the Venetian. It is a thoughtful and suggestive piece of writing. ' Worcestershire Seed Farms ' is pleasant reading' The English Illustrated opens with an article on 'Flying Machines,' with very numerous designs serious or comic, of past efforts in the way of aerial navigation. ' Inside a Beggar's Museum ' is curious in its way. Further particulars about Napo- leon are given in another essay concerning ' The Great Adventurer.' 'How We Won India' de- scribes the battle of Plassy. Mr. Clement Shorter writes thoughtfully in ' In my Library.' Mr. Austin Dobson sends to Longman* 'Angelo's Reminis- cences,' a delightful gossip concerning the last century. 'The Angler's Birds' is an agreeable study in natural history. Mr. Lang is both amusing and edifying in 'At the Sign of the Ship.' He treats with some derision the promised Polychrome Bible. Chapman's is once more devoted entirely to fiction, much of it very good.

PART LV. of Cassell's Gazetteer extends from Tingwall to Tunbridge. with views of Tintagel, Tintern, Titchfield Abbey, Torquay, Totnes, the Tower, the Trossachs, Truro Cathedral, the Pantiles, and other spots of beauty or interest.

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