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ments a diminution of 50 per cent, in those of other countries would follow. A very valuable paper is that of the Hon. Mr. Justice Ameer Ali on ' The Influence of Women in Islam.' "If," the writer holds, "the Mussulmans of India desire to raise themselves, they should restore women to the pedestal they occupied in the early centuries of Islam." Mr. Joseph Shaylor writes on ' Booksellers and Bookselling.' We find in this a further wail over the disastrous system of discounts. Mrs. Lecky has a timely paper on ' The House in the Wood,' the seat of the forthcoming Peace Conference. ' Reminiscences of Lady Byron ' is by Mrs. Alexan- der Ross, and gives many extracts from the letters of the widow of the poet- The editor finds the time opportune in connexion with ' Wireless Telegraphy' to advance again his ingenious theory as to brain- waves. ' Russia in Finland,' by Dr. J. N. Reuter, of the University of Helsingfors, and ' The Jackeroo,' by the Rev. A. C. Yorke, may both be commended for perusal. Mr. Dana Gibson continues in the Pall Mail ' Sketches in Egypt,' the present number, like its predecessors, containing many very clever illus- trations, chiefly of the English occupation. A beauti- fully executed photogravure of Henner's picture of Fabiola serves as frontispiece. In the ' Capitals of Greater Britain ' St. John's, Newfoundland, is now given. It has many excellent views from photo- graphs of the harbour, the Government House, the ruins of the Anglican cathedral, &c. ' Rembrandt and his Etchings,' by Mrs. Wedmore, has reproduc- tions from prints in the British Museum. ' Birds' Love ' is a pleasant paper which we should wholly commend, but that we fear it may tempt some to try experiments permissible only to the very care- ful. Under the signature of Augustus J. C. Hare appears an illustrated paper, 'The London of Pepys.' Mr. Clark Russell continues ' The Story of the Ship.' Miss E. Nesbit has another delightful sketch of children. 'The Lost Torpedo' is excellent. Prof. Tyrrell has in the Cornhill a characteristic- ally admirable eulogy of George Eliot, under the title of 'The Sense of Humour in Women.' Mr. Garrett Fisher writes on ' The Balzac Centenary,' but does not quote nearly all the authorities for the Balzac we know. People would not readily sup- pose that ' The Orphan ' dealt with a Cachalot whale. 'An. International Episode' is drawn presumably by Mr. Horatio F. Brown from Venetian archives. 'Conferences on Men and Books' is signed " Urba- nus Sylvan," a strange perversion of a familiar name. ' The Chinese Emperor and his Surround- ings,' by Mr. Archibald Little, and Lady Broome's 'Colonial Memories,' part i., are both to be com- mended. Temple Bar gives a very spirited account of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count von Romford, some while Regent of Bavaria, who was also at one time minister for Bavaria at the Court of St. James's, or would have been such, but that King George refused to accept one of his own subjects as a minister. A singular and a brilliant character was Thompson, who founded the Royal Institution, and seems to have been an Admirable Crichton. A second biography is of Dr. Arne. Millicent Wedmore also sends a good account of ' George Fox in Cartmel.' A paper on ' Jacobean Lyrists ' is principally occupied with Thomas Carew. Prof. Attwell takes, in the Gentle- man's, 'An Autumn Farewell' to Bex. The Rev. John E. Field has a readable paper on ' Beside the Wantsume.' ' Beau Brummell's Successor ' is Count d'Orsay. A naval officer gives an account of

'Norfolk Island.' Mr. Philip Kent contribute- 'A Mseander.' In the English Illustrated is ar account of 'Robert Louis Stevenson' by two o his cousins. It has some capital pictures of hit various residences, and a displeasing portrait o; him in 1854, looking like a girl. Major May, R.H.A ' has a good paper on 'Field Artillery in Future Wars. ' That army which brings the most etfec tive artillery first to bear " will in future wars wii the day, is the conclusion reached. ' At the Bottoir of the Sea ' is an article of singular importance anc suggestiveness. The illustrations, the colourec especially, are wonderfully good. Miss E. C Godley sends to Longmans a very readable ac count of Henry Teonge under the title 'A Nava Chaplain of the Seventeenth Century.' In additioi to his characteristic communications in ' At the Sign of the Ship,' in which he deals with Mr Kipling, 'Bullying at Schools,' Mr. Palgrave, am other subjects, Mr. Lang now takes part in th< opening novel. Frank Ritchie has another batcl of mixed metaphors. Mrs. Clement Shorter send* a most spirited ballad, 'Earl Roderick's Bride,' anc Mr. W. H. Pollock has a thrilling account of ' Tht Phantasmatograph.'

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H. W. MOORE ("Ships that pass in the night ") From Longfellow's ' Tales of a Wayside Inn, part iii., 'The Theologian's Tale,' ''Elizabeth, canto iv. See 8 th S. v. 387, 436 ; viii. 206, 278.

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