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mezzotint of Prince Rupert in the collection of His Majesty. Other designs of great interest are from Andrea Nanni, Adrian Isenbrant, Simone Mar- tini, John van Eecke, and other artists. Mr. Joseph Pennell supplies a good and well-illustrated article on 'Later Nineteenth-Century Book Illus- trations.'

Two articles only in the Fortnightly, if we except the conclusion of Mr. Wells's ' Mankind in the Making, 5 are of a kind to which we can refer. One of these is an appreciation by Mr. H. B. Marriott Watson of R. L. Stevenson. The esti- mate formed may perhaps be summed up in his words concerning Stevenson's essays: "In them are displayed his fancy, fluent and whimsical ; his wit, tine and delicate ; his humour, buoyant ; and his philosophy, profoundly vital." We are rather tired of articles upon Stevenson and his false friend Henley, but this is one of the best and most judi- cious. The other non-political or non-controversial article is ' The American Husband/ by Gertrude Atherton. How far this sketch of male American manners is fact and how far caricature we know not. A pretty bold system of classification is, at least, adopted. ' Songs from Heine ' is not better than such things usually are. ' In Exile ' is by Anton Tchekhoff. Mr. Michael MacDonagh contributes to the Nineteenth Century an essay on ' The Ballads of the People.' Very naively comic are some of these, and we can easily believe in their popularity, though whether the "wise man" of Fletcher of Saltoun would aspire to have written them we can- not conjecture. Mr. MacDonagh seems unaware that the "pathetic sentimental" ballad he quotes (p. 469), under the title of ' For the Children's Sake,' is a mere pitiful plagiarism from Hood. The last two lines are

Till worn out, she falls asleep o'er the seams, And the last button sews on but in dreams. Mrs. Maxwell-Scott sends the first half of a very pious and credulous paper on 'Joan of Arc.' Mr. Edward Dicey, the treasurer, tells ' The Story of Gray's Inn.' Mrs. W. Kemp- Welch has a thought- ful and suggestive contribution as to ' Beast Imagery and the Bestiary.' The Lady Carlisle of ' Lion- Hunters and Lady Carlisle ' is the lady who was a conspicuous figure at the Court of Charles I. In a pretty and fantastic cover the Pall Mail opens with a description of 'The Pilgrims' Way.' Some of the illustrations to this are very effective. Notably so is a view on the Medway, one of Canter- bury from the Stour, with a capital presentation of the cathedral, and another of the North Downs near Reigate. Major Powell-Cotton describes ' The Cave Dwellers of Mount Elgon.' The caves in question are about ninety miles north-east of the Victoria Nyanza. A description follows of the Emperor of Austria and his family, and is succeeded by one of Pierre Loti and his home. An account of the method of election of a Pope is called ' A Conclave.' W. E. Henley is described by Mr. William Archer, and ' Stevenson's Country ' by Mr. W. Sharp. Mrs. Woods begins in the Cornhill a description of 'In Guipuzcoa,' and Mr. Frederic Harrison supplies a short and not very illuminatory article on ' The Century Club.' Prof. Louis Brandin writes appreciatively on Gaston Paris, a learned and interesting personage, whose loss is to be mourned. Mr. M. MacDonagh gives for the first time ' The Tragedy of Robert Emmet.' Mr. Frank Watson Dyson, F.R.S., writes on 'New Stars,' and

Mr. Sidney Low on W. E. Henley. The number is eminently readable. In ' At the Sign of the Ship,' in Longman's, Mr. Lang deals at some length with James de la Cloche, a natural son of Charles II. It is a very curious and rather uncertain story he has to tell. Mr. H. A. Bryden discusses ' Badgers and their Ways,' and Mr. Fountain continues his account of ' Canada in the Sixties.' A change seems to be coming over the Gentleman ',v, which is wisely resuming a class of quasi-archaeological articles of which it had at one time a virtual monopoly. Papers such as those on 'Heine in London,' 'The Duke of Berwick,' 'Cromwell in Hertfordshire,' and ' The Decadence of the Art of Cob-Walling ' are superior to the average of those in magazines or more pretentious periodicals. ' An Elizabethan Playhouse ' is a pretended Tudor document not likely to deceive. In addition to its fiction the Idler has an account of Whistler. It is a pleasure to see in Scribbler's a contribution ('Tom Folio') from the graceful and fluent pen of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Bliss Carman sends some very pleasing translated ' Lyrics from Sappho.' The illustrations and letterpress are alike excellent.

MB. HENRY FROWDE has acquired a series of unpublished drawings on wood made by George Cruikshank nearly fifty years ago to illustrate ' The Pilgrim's Progress.' These will form the chief feature of an edition de luxe of Bunyan's master- piece which will be issued from the Oxford Univer- sity Press in the autumn.

MESSRS. BELL announce a volume on ' The Art of James McNeill Whistler,' by Mr. T. R. Way and Mr. G. R. Dennis. It has been in preparation for some time, and was in the press at the time of the artist's death.

IN our notice of ' Romantic Tales from the Panjab, ante, p. 178, col. 1, 1. 28 from foot, for "compiled" substitute collected.

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