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i ealist, a demographer, a classic, and a romanesque -points of view involving less contradiction than < ne is at first apt to think. Owing to the complete - -his latest critic is uneasy whether on a people such { s the French the renascence of his influence will 1 >e wholly for good. Mr. Arthur Symons deals with the work of Aubrey Beardsley, and defends him irom the charge of inability to draw. Beardsley did not after academic fashion draw the human iiody with any attempt at rendering its own lines taken by themselves, but "he could draw with extraordinary skill in what is, after all, the essen- tial way; he could make a line do what he wanted it to do, express the conception of form which it was his intention to express." Dr. Maurice de Fleury attempts ' The Cure of Indolence.' Granting all that he demands, some good results might attend the plan he suggests; but you will no more make an indolent man take tc active exercise than a gipsy be content to sleep beneath a roof. Judge Parry writes wisely concerning ' The Insolvent Poor,' and Mr. Richard Davey gives an interesting account of ' Havana and the Havanese.' To the Nineteenth Century the Hon. Sidney Peel contributes a paper on 'Nicholas Culpeper, physician and astrologer, a man who, on account of his political and religious opinions, came in for a good deal of unmerited obloquy. Some unfamiliar and romantic par- ticulars are narrated concerning his early life. He is held, moreover though unquestionably a quack to have grasped some of the principles of true progress. Mr. H. W. Hoare writes on 'The Eng- lish Bible: Wyclif to Coverdale.' After dwelling on the hostility displayed by the king, by Sir Thomas More, and the English hierarchy in genera to the New Testament of Tyndale, and pointing out that within a year of Tyndale's death a Bibl( which was practically his was ordered to be placec in every parish church, Mr. Hoare attributes the opposition on the part of reforming England to th< fact that the terminology of the Church was in vested in general belief with a peculiar sanctity and that to appeal, as did Tyndale, to philologj and the plain meaning of words, "was to provoke intense repugnance in the Conservative camp.' For " 'charity' he substituted ' love'; for 'church, 'repentance'; for 'contrite,' 'troubled.'" If Tyn dale was the Hercules among Biblical labourers Coverdale was the Orpheus. To him Mr. Hoar attributes much ' ' of the beautiful music whicl seems to well up out of the perennial springs of ou Authorized Version." ' A Young Lady's Journe; from Dublin to London in 1791 gives a pleasin account of life, and indicates in the writer a: agreeable individuality, but seems written wit! a view to undergoing inspection. The writer wa only seventeen. Dr. A. J. Mason has an article, t be warmly commended to our readers, on ' Th Romance of an Ancient City Church.' Mr. Hennike Heaton dreams once more of 'A Postal Utopia The late Charles Yriarte communicates some accept able reminiscences concerning Meissonier. 1 h frontispiece to the Century is a pleasing reprodu tion of Romney's delightful ' Parson's Daughter in the National Gallery. The first article is a wel I Beethoven Museum at Bonn. 5 More than sufn ciently thrilling is an account of the ' Ascent of th
 * egarded by M. Faguet under four aspects as a
 * loofness of Balzac from all moral considerations
 * matter sufficiently evident throughout his writings
 * congregation '; for ' grace,' ' favour '; for ' penance,
 * written and charmingly illustrated account of ' Th

nchanted Mesa,' a second part of which deals ith the primitive remains there found. Mr. ailey Aldrich, the delightful author of ' Margery aw, supplies, under the title ' His Grace the uke,' a very interesting account of a head, sup- osed to be that of the great Duke of Suffolk, r hich until very recently was preserved in a ondon church. ' The Secret Language of Chil- ren' is a curious paper, the subject of which in some respects associated with folk - lore. Submarine Photography ' is as yet in its infancy, ome curious results are, however, exhibited. Undergraduate Life at Wellesley,' with which cribners leads off, depicts existence in what ppears to be a very picturesquely situated and btractive college for American girls. Many of the pirited illustrations seem to be by the students. Ytr. Cabot Lodge's ' Story of the Revolution ' ncludes among its many illustrations a picture of he surrender of Burgoyne. ' In the Army of the Jnemployed' is continued with undiminished in- erest. 'Some Bicycle Pictures,' by Mr. A. B. Trost, are very lifelike and well executed. Under he heading ' Capitals of Greater Britain ' we have, n the Pall Mall, a series of excellent views of Bridges, public buildings, and other edifices of which Australians are justly proud. Sir Hugh Gough sends the first part of ' Old Memories,' which deals with Afghanistan. 'Lord Tottenham' is another of Miss Nesbit's delightfully whimsical descriptions of child life. 'The late John Lough - )orough Pearson, R.A.,' is illustrated with many views of buildings, ecclesiastical and domestic, designed and executed by him, together with a [pod portrait. The papers on ' The Evolution of Comfort in Railway Travelling' are continued. Some of the illustrations to the magazine, poetical and fantastic, are of singular beauty. Under Fights for the Flag,' the Rev. W. H. Fitchett, in he Cornhill, deals with George II. at Dettingen, reviving memories of a glorious and all-but-for- gotten combat. Mr. Leslie Stephen sends some affectionate reminiscences of James Payn. Some unpublished letters of Lamb addressed to Robert Lloyd are begun. We look regretfully for a con- tinuance of 'Pages from a Private Diary.' If, as there seems occasion to believe, these are suspended, and will not be resumed, they should be published in a volume apart. They are too good to be buried in a magazine. ' Schoolmasters^ Humour' and ' The Ethics of the Tramp ' are to be commended. ' Social Evolution in Japan ' has both interest and importance. ' The Patriarch of Jouy,' concerning whom Mr. H. M. Poynter writes in Temple Bar, is said to be Christophe Philippe Oberkampf should it not be Wilhelm Philipp Oberkampf? the Ger- man cotton manufacturer. Interesting articles in the same magazine are ' The Jessamy Beau on the Stage,' ' Thackeray's Foreigners,' and ' Our Curse from Cadmus.' To Macmillan's Mr. Stephen Gwynii sends a good account of ' Anthony Hamilton,' the biographer of Grammont. Another biographical paper is on ' George Thomson,' whose life, as the friend of Burns, is one of the season's books. ' An American Historian of the British Navy' is Mr. Theo- dore Roosevelt. ' The Private Soldier in Tirah,' by " One who Served with Him," will be turned to with much interest. Mr. Hales continues, in the Gentleman's, his study of Shakspeare's 'Tempest.' Mr. Percy Fitzgerald writes on ' Pickwickian Bath.' ' America and George III.' opens out a very curious chapter of eighteenth-century history. The par-