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of about half the score governors who have held office since the Cape, in 1797, came under the British flag. The first of these is Lord Macartney, the latest Sir Alfred Milner. The publication of the article is, of course, opportune. 'Ambulance Nursing, Past and Present,' has also immediate interest. It begins with Netley Hospital, and then proceeds to some of our troopship hospitals. ' Lot- teries, Luck, Chance, and Gambling Systems' is continued, and has some of the quaint illustrations which commend it to antiquarian readers. In ' Ex- Libris,' Mr. Henley speaks of Mr. Stephen Phillips with a sanity all that gentleman's critics have not displayed. 'He gives also a well-merited tribute to the exquisite child's stories of Mr. Kenneth Graham, and speaks in praise of Miss Cholmondeley's ' Red Pottage,' a novel in which, during a period of con- valescence, we took a moderate amount of delight. Prof. Lombroso's 'The Bicycle and Crime' is a, curious study, characteristic of its writer. 'In a Sacred City' gives an account of Muttra, the birth- place of Krishna. Sir John Robinson continues, in the Cornhill, his interesting and important ' South African Experiences.' Lady Broome, always a wel- come contributor, writes pleasantly on ' Bird Notes,' a title, however, not wholly, or at least fully, descriptive of her article. Canon Staveley supplies a biographical sketch of Antoine Drouot, a modern Bayard, who, it is pointed out, was present both at Trafalgar and Waterloo. ' The Value of a Dead Celebrity,' by Mr. Harold Macfarlane, deals with the question of the financial worth of the relics of departed greatness. We are told, for instance, of tresses of the hair of Marie Antoinette, and we wonder what would be given for an unquestioned lock of hair belonging to Shakespeare. To us personally souvenirs of the kind have, in the case of strangers in heart, no significance or value whatever ; out there are those who are of a different opinion. Mr. W. B. Duffield gossips pleasantly concerning ' Cam- bridge a Hundred Years Ago.' The fiction is gener- ally excellent. To Temple Bar Mr. Diplock sends an appreciative account of M. Anatole France, dwelling, as needs he must, on the humour and the delight in paradox of his subject. 'An American Shrine,' by jVlr. Arthur Moritefiore Brice, describes St. Augustine, which during nine months seems to merit Thomson's description of his ideal paradise :

A pleasant land of drowsy-hed it was.

Rae's close and intelligent study of Sheridan, to which is owing the best account we possess of the great dramatist arid wit. Charles Francis Sheridan was the elder brother of Richard Brinsley, and was his rival for the love of Miss Linley. He wrote a history of the revolution in Sweden which was translated into French. Mr. Fraser Rae's article is full of interest. ' Points about Speakers,' by Mr. James Sykes, which appears in the Gentleman's, has a title which is slightly humorous and alto- gether misleading. It deals with the Speakers of the House of Commons. ' The Founder of a Dynasty,' by Mr. Perronet Thompson, is Berna- dotte, King of Sweden, of whose romantic career a picturesque and an interesting account is given. Mr. C. Trollope writes on ' The Dog in Literature.'
 * Sheridan's Brother ' is an outcome of Mr. Fraser

In Longmans ' The Proof-Sheets of Redgauntlet,'

by Mr. D. MacRitchie, constitute delightful read- ing. The light cast upon Scott's method of work and Ballantyne's suggested improvements is edify- ing. Mr. Shieldham writes ably on ' Stray Notes

on Colour in Relation to Temperament.' In 'At the Sign of the Ship,' amidst much matter humorous and edifying, Mr. Lang explains on behalf of him- self and Mr. Mason a slip in the novel they jointly contributed to the magazine. The English Illus- trated gives as a supplement an excellent coloured portrait of Mr. Tree. Mr. George Douglas has an interesting paper on an African subject. An article very interesting to folk-lorists and the like is that on 'A West African Tribe and its Secret Societies.' The tribe in question is the Ibibio. It would be curious to compare the initiatory processes to which boys are subject with those practised among certain aborigines in Australia. Many of the illustrations are quaint and striking, and the entire article has signal value. As usual, most of the contents consist of fiction. The two opening articles in Scribner's deal with English subjects, the first consisting of a description by pen and pencil of ' The Fighting with Methuen's Division.' The record ends when the Modder river is reached. It is a rather melan- choly account of bravery and mismanagement Considering the circumstances under which they were taken, some of them in the heat of action, the photographs are marvellous. This article is followed by a further instalment of Mr. Theodore Roosevelt's 'Oliver Cromwell.' The illustrations to this, and the portraits especially, are of great interest. The action ends with the execution of

i Charles. Mr. Roosevelt, as was to be expected,

I justifies the death of the monarch. Mr. Carrington's 'New York at Night' is striking in all respects.


 * Mr. G. F. Pentecost writes on ' The Renaissance of

j Landscape Architecture.'

A REVISED and enlarged edition of * The Right to Bear Arms,' with a copious index, is announced as nearly ready for publication by Mr. Elliot Stock.

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