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Cameos: Short Stories. By Marie Corelli. 6s. Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler. Bight Hon. W. E. Gladstone.__ 4s. 6d.

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Made in Germany." By Ernest Edwin Williams.

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2s. 6d. I take some credit to myself for having sent you "March Hares" with no uncertain note of commendation long before it became the novel of the season. More delightful writing of its kind-whimsical, and yet true and tender-than that of its first forty pages has not, I think, appeared in England since Stevenson wrote. So good are those few chapters, that one can hardly grumble at the falling off that follows-comedy, with a touch of potential tragedy, gives way to boisterous farce, and with the appearance of Drumpipes the book misses its full merit and beauty. People are asking what wellknown name the pseudonym-one knew it was a pseudonym-conceals. Mr. Harold Frederic is the general assertion. But "The Yellow Book" (which proceeds from the Bodley Head) suggests the collaboration of two or three of Mr. Henley's "young men," and even points at Mr. George Steevens, once of the Pall Mall Gazette. For my own part, I would pin my faith on its being Mr. Frederic's. It appeared at much the same time 28 Illumination," which was much more seriously intentioned; and it would be natural enough for its author to wish not to confuse the public with work so dissimilar, to desire not to risk the chances of the larger book by the rivalry of the smaller. It is as surprising as it is gratifying to find Mrs. Meynell's new volume so near the head of this list-Mrs. Meynell, the one woman whose work one would say was caviare to the general, meat too studied, too concentrated, for that large body of readers whose patronage alone can make a book really "sell well." One had taken it rather for granted that, exquisite writer though she was, her audience was few though fit. I suppose that it is the continual praise-we know how justified in all essentials -of Mr. Coventry Patmore (and now of Mr. George Meredith) that has worked this marvel. How distinguished, fine, and true her writing is her previous volume of prose, "The Rhythm of Life," showed you; "The Colour of Life" (Lane, 3s. 6d. net.) will but deepen an impression already too strong to fear oblivion's poppy. Read here to name but three of the papers-the titleessay, "Eleonora Duse," and "Symmetry and Incident" -and you will see at once that the hand that made "Renouncement" has yielded no whit of its cunning. Ah! if the "general reader can but be brought to appreciate rightly the value, the depth of these intelligent pages! Is it possible? Will he ever care to devote to a paragraph the attention he has been wont to give a chapter? If not, Mrs. Meynell's work is not for him.

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The next book is fiction-the work of a man whose novels I have always praised in my letters to you. In "Flotsam: the Study of a Life" (Longmans, 6s.), Mr. Seton Merriman would at first appear to essay a task more difficult, less dependent on mere incident for its

interest, than hitherto. But I am sorry to say that the suggested psychology of the title is but conventional. The story is a good story, but what psychology there is is of the old, well-worn sort, and the book owes, and will owe, its success to the scenes of the Indian Mutiny it depicts so well, the fighting in the lines before Delhi, the well "arranged" intrigue in Calcutta. But as a novelist Mr. Merriman is always, on every page, readable: that he puts all his goods in his shop window is undeniable, but he dresses them with skill, and the result is excellent-and it is not slipshod, as is too often the novel of its class. "Cameos: Short Stories" (Hutchinson, 6s.) is another of the books with which Miss Corelli constantly breaks the record of huge sales. It has all the stuff of extreme popularity between its

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Mr. Gladstone's "Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler" (Clarendon Press, 4s. 6d.) is a natural and welcome supplement to his edition of the Bishop's writings. It is divided into two parts, the first dealing entirely with Butler and his teaching, the second with the vast, difficult subject of the state of man in the future life, and is, of course, made up of the articles he has been contributing to one of the American reviews. I think we can both of us say what has at least greatly helped to put Mr. E. E. Williams's "Made in Germany" (Heinemann, 2s. 6d.) on the list. What with it having been made "the book of the month" and the subject of a speech by Lord Rosebery, its success was assured.

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In history and biography I have nothing more important to send you than an interesting little illustrated brochure by Mr. Hermann Senn, "Ye Art of Cookery in Ye Olden Time" (Universal Cookery and Food Association, 6d.); but there are four books of a political and legal kind which you will be glad enough to have. The new volume of the Questions of the Day Series," America and Europe: a Study of International. Relations" (Putnam, 2s. 6d.), in which " The United States and Great Britain,' "The Monroe Doctrine," and "Arbitration in International Disputes" are discussed by writers of the very first authority, is the most important; but it is pressed hard by the little book on "The Political Situation" in South Africa, of course - (Unwin, 1s. 6d.), the work of " Olive Schreiner" and her husband. Then there is Mr. Joseph Collinson's "What it Costs to be Vaccinated: the Pains and Penalties of an Unjust Law" (Reeves, 1s.), and a curious compilation, issued under the auspices of the Economic Club-" Family Budgets: being the Income and Expenses of Twenty-Eight British Households, 1891-1894" (King, 2s. 6d. net). This is the result of a serious effort to study family life in Great Britain through details of family expenditure," and it is rather surprising to see how small a percentage has been spent on alcoholic drink by the families selected. And yet the workers of Great Britain were always supposed "to like their glass"! But then, as Mr. Walkley has suggested in the Daily Chronicle— it was Mr. Walkley, surely?-the sort of family whom you could induce to keep so rigid an account of its expenditure is hardly likely to take its "joy of life" in a manner so loose as beer or spirit-drinking!

I thought this month you would like me to put in your box plenty of fiction. You cannot complain on that score-you have more than a dozen novels, and all of them readable. First, I think, I ought to mention

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two tales of the Dutch Indies-one, " An Outcast of the Islands (Unwin, 6s.), is by a writer, Mr. Joseph Conrad, whose last story, "Almayer's Folly," had so large and so well deserved a success. Here is a book with the same novel atmosphere, the same sense of remote, untutored savagery, of a mixture of races beyond the appreciation of the untravelled European. It has the power of its predecessor, it contains as powerful and as beautiful scenes. The other, "Gold," by Miss Annie Linden (Lane, 3s. 6d. net), is the second volume of Lane's Library, and depends for its interest not so much on literary charm as the sensational incidents following on a search for the hidden treasure-fields of a forgotten king. "Gold! gold! gather it! pluck it up! see, it is fat, yellow gold!"-so runs one sentence out of the old, faded document which first put the hero on the scent, and ultimately turned his brain. Miss Linden writes pleasantly, if ingenuously, and she manages as she unfolds her story to impart a good deal of imformation about native life and customs. But she is merely a teller of stories, while Mr. Conrad is an artist, who, knowing so intimately a field so unworked, may achieve something very considerable. A Dutch story, but one dealing not with the Indies, but with Amsterdam, is "A Stumbler in Wide Shoes" (Hutchinson, 6s.), by Mr. E. Sutcliffe March, a new writer, I take it. But new to the game or not, Mr. March can tell a story, and his picture of the moral wreck and ultimate redemption of a young Dutch painter is full of interest and power. There is excellent love interest too -of a conventional kind-in the book, and the world of Amsterdam gives it a novel flavour.

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A good English society novel is "A Lawyer's Wife: a Tale of Two Women and Some Men" (Lane, 4s. 6d. net), by Sir W. Nevill Geary, Bart., who has painted a disagreeable, essentially modern woman in a manner reminiscent of Mrs. Alfred Dean, who had, I thought, the prior right to use such types. Well written the tale is not, but it shows plenty of knowledge of the world, and is never dull. You will find also "A Humble Enterprise" (Ward and Lock, 3s. 6d.), by Miss Ada Cambridge, a clever little story, modern in its note, but not too modern. I can always read Miss Cambridge's story with interest. small book by a writer new to me, and new I think to you, is "Sapphira of the Stage: How Sebastian Goss being Dumb, yet Made Love to Her, and What Befell" (Jarrow 1s. 6d.), by Mr. George Knight, the second volume of the pretty Daffodil Library (which began by issuing Mr. Grant Allen's "The Jaws of Death," without any intimation that it was a new edition of a story half a dozen years old!). There is a good deal of real strength, and some literary ability of a rather untutored sort, in this story, but what may interest you most about it is its ghost-scenes, which are refreshingly original, if not very convincing. The "what befell" of the title was lurid enough in all conscience-the submergence of hero and heroine, clasped in one another's arms, in a quicksand! A novel neither you nor those of your friends who care for the better kind of fiction must miss is a new volume in the Pioneer Series, "Across an Ulster Bog" (Heinemann, 2s. 6d. net.), by Miss M. Hamilton, whose "A Self-Denying Ordinance" we both admired so highly. Here this writer has a smaller canvas, but the power of the earlier book is in it-and, more's the pity, that somewhat amateurish way of arranging her sentences which we both noticed before. But the peasantry of Northern Ireland Miss Hamilton certainly knows inside and out. "Mr. Magnus" (Unwin, 6s.) is a gross travesty, sensational and serious enough

in its aim, of life at the Kimberley diamond fields. You will see at once that "Mr. Magnus" is meant for Mr. Rhodes-an enemy's portrait-and other characters, like Mr. Barney Barnato, are easy enough to recognise. Mr. Statham, or whoever it is wrote the book, has missed his chance. He might have produced really a powerful novel with a thinly-disguised figure of Mr. Rhodes as hero. He could have made the picture as anti-Rhodes as he liked, but the material would have worked out with a fine picturesqueness and power if it had been properly handled.

Two volumes of short stories deserve a paragraph to themselves. First, Mrs. W. K. Clifford's "Mere Stories" (Black, 2s.) is not only notable for the excellence and uniform interest of the stories it contains, but also for the novelty of its shape that of the yellow French novel pure and simple! The innovation deserves encouragement. You do not want, at this time of day, an introduction to Mrs. Clifford's many good qualities. She has become one of those few writers of English fiction no one of whose book one can afford to leave unread. And certainly you cannot afford to leave unreid a volume of short stories, by a new writer-Mr. W. D. Scull's "The Garden of the Matchboxes and Other Stories" (Mathews, 3s. 6d. net). I cannot pretend to give efficient reasons for the faith that is in me, but I feel that in Mr. Scull appears a new writer worth following. At present he is over-conscious, rather laboured, certainly leaving the impression that to him style is at least as important as matter. He writes about the East, about London life, about-well, about most things, as if he knew them. He is eerie and fantastic and obscure, and one finishes most of his stories with a doubt of their meaning, but still he fascinates and compels interest-and curiosity.

One or two books have been translated this month from Continental languages. There is Björnstjerne Björnson's "The Fisher Lass" (Heinemann, 3s. net) in that collected edition of his stories for which Mr. Edmund Gosse writes brief prefatory notes; and there is a new novel by Dr. Max Nordau, "The Malady of the Century' (Heinemann, 6s.), full of its author's confused teaching, but worth your looking at; and in conclusion, a translation from the Danish of Hendrik Pontoppidan's "The Promised Land" (Dent, 3s. 6d. net), excellently illustrated. Pontoppidan is one of the very foremost of Danish novelists, and I believe one doesn't know European fiction in anything like its entirety if one remains strange to his work.

Short stories and essays make up Mr. Le Gallienne's "Prose Fancies (Second Series)" (Lane, 3. 6d. net), a very pleasant volume, but of a quality on the whole rather lower than that which preceded it. It contains, however, with a certain amount of rubble, one or two of its author's most beautiful pieces of writing "A Seventh-Story Heaven," for instance, shows how admirable an artist in words, sincere and not affected, he can be, how tender and near the heart of pathos, and love, and joy. "The Buria of Romeo and Juliet " is a charming fancy; and one or two papers at the close answer certain critics of "The Religion of a Literary Man," and should be read with that book. "The Works of Max Beerbohm " (Lane, 4s. 6d. net) is, as you will soon see for yourself, an addition to what Mr. Traill calls the "literature of impertinence." It is a small volume containing those half-dozen essays, precious. full of affectations, but still admirably written and always justifying themselves by their qualities of amusement, Mr. Beerbohm contributed to the early numbers of "The Yellow Book." And we have also Mr. Beerbohm's

"I shall write no apology for himself, his swan song. more," he says. "Already I feel myself to be a trifle outmoded. I belong to the Beardsley period." And the humour of the thing lies in the fact that even today Mr. Beerbohm is not twenty-four! Mr. John Lane's elaborate bibliography of this "outmoded" young gentleman's various productions is excellent fooling, too, and distinctly the little book is one to keep. Here I may mention two new editions-that of Mr. Augustine Birrell's "Res Judicata" (Stock, 2s. 6d.), in the collected popular edition of his books, a truly delightful volume of literary essays; and M. Alphonse Daudet's "Recollections of a Literary Man" (Dent, 2s. 6d, net), one of the reissue in English form of his better known books.

Three new volumes of verse I am able to send you this month-volumes I have myself thoroughly enjoyed, and which I do not think any one who cares at all for modern poetry can afford to disregard. Two are by Mrs. Woods, already well known as a novelist, and, to a smaller circle, as a poet. แ Wild Justice: a Dramatic Poem" (Smith and Elder, 2s. 6d.) has that atmosphere of profound, impenetrable gloom which

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hung over A Village Tragedy." But the power of it, the impressiveness! All pathos, and horror, and the poignant anguish of some women's fate is in the play, which can be compared to the work of no other modern but Ibsen. Indeed, Shakespeare himself is, I should think, the model Mrs. Woods placed before her. There is more than a note of that kind of art of suggestion and terror he exercises in "Macbeth" in this tragedy of the lonely Welsh coast. Mrs. Woods is not so depressing a writer in "Aeromancy and Other Poems" (Mathews, 1s. net). It contains one poem, "The Child Alone," that will stand with the best work of Mr. Stevenson's, whose point of view in regard to children it has; and it is a sort of companion in verse to Mr. Grahame's “The Golden Age.” "An April Song" and "March Thoughts from England" are both keenly beautiful, but " Aëromancy" itself is too obscure for the ordinary reader. The third volume, "A Shropshire Lad" (Kegan Paul, 2s. 6d.), is by a new writer, Mr. A. E. Housman, a very real poet, and a very English one at that. His book is really a biography in verse, in sixty-three short poems, dealing with the loves and sorrows, the dramatic incidents, the daily labours of a Ludlow boy. Simplicity is the note of Mr. Housman's style-simplicity and a dignified restraint. Open at page 38 and read the poem that begins "Is my team plowing?" and then tell me if you do not consider Mr. Housman a distinct acquisition to the little body of young men who are worthily doing their utmost to keep alive the traditions of English song. And I send a new edition of Mr. Edward Carpenter's Whitmanesque volume "Towards Democracy" (Unwin, 6s.), and a and complete collection, under the title of "Lapsus Calami and Other Verses" (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge, 5s.), of the late J. K. Stephen's poetical work. There is a portrait in the volume, and an introduction by his brother. You do not need to be told that "J. K. S." carried on in his own day that tradition of Cambridge verse that C. S. Calverley made for an earlier generation.

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Two or three very entertaining, and a couple of very learned, scientific volumes are in your box this month. The one most likely to be popular is Mr. C. J. Cornish's "Animals at Work and Play: their Activities and Emotions" (Seeley, 6s.), a delightful collection of papers on the every-day life of animals, which have been appearing in the Spectator. Mr. Cornish treats such subjects as

"Animals' Beds,' 99 66 Animals' Toilettes,' 99.66 Military Tactics of Animals," and "Dangerous Animals of Europe" with unfailing vivacity. The papers are cleverly illustrated from photographs. Then there is a second series of Mr. Edward Step's "Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: a Pocket Guide to British Wild Flowers for the Country Rambler" (Warne, 7s. 6d.), not a highly priced book when the fact is taken into consideration that it contains coloured plates of a hundred and thirty species, and illustrations and clear descriptions of nearly four hundred others. Sir John Lubbock's "The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to which it is Due" (Macmillan, 6s.), with a number of maps and illustrations, appears very opportunely, and its appeal is as much strictly scientific as popular. Mr. Lydekker's "A Geographical History of Mammals" (Cambridge Warehouse, 10s. 6d.) is a volume, well illustrated, of course, of the Cambridge Geographical Series, containing a very clear view of its subject, presented in a thoroughly readable manner. By the way, "The Royal Natural History" (Warne), of which Mr. Lydekker is editor, is appearing in sixpenny weekly parts. There is no popular work of its kind cheaper or better illustrated, and what is particularly important, the text is always the work of a specialist who can be entirely trusted to give the very latest information on each subject.

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Geographical works of one kind and another have a peculiar interest just now. Thus you will welcome Mr. Douglas Sladen's unconventional guide-book, "Brittany for Britons (Black, 2s. 6d.), with its "newest practical information about the towns frequented by the English on the Gulf of St. Malo." And there is Mr. H. R. G. Inglis's "The Contour'. Road-Book of Scotland" (Gall and Inglis, 2s.), a series of elevation plans of the Scottish roads for the convenience of cyclists, with measurements and descriptive letterpress. "Two Knapsacks in the Channel Islands (Jarrold, 1s.), by Mr. Jasper Braithwaite and Mr. Maclean, explains itself. It is a fully illustrated, somewhat humorous description, and may be useful. Major A. F. Mockler-Ferryman's “In the Northman's Land: Travel, Sport, and Folk-lore in the Hardanger Fjord and Fjeld" (Low, 7s. 6d.), is a very capable, interesting book, whose map and illustrations add to its value. Travel of a different kind is represented by Mr. Julius M. Price's "The Land of Gold: the Narrative of a Journey through the West Australian Gold-fields in the Autumn of 1895** (Low, 7s. 6d.). Here too is a map, with many illustrations by the author.

Nothing in the way of theology that I can send is likely to be more interesting than Mr. F. A. Malleson's new edition, with a considerable number of hitherto unprinted letters, of Mr. Ruskin's "Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church, with Replies from Clergy and Laity, and an Epilogue” (George Allen, 5s. net). But you will like to have Mr. Richard Lovett's "Primer of Modern Missions" (R. T. S., ls.), in the Present Day Series, although "considerations of space have forbidden any reference to modern Roman Catholic Missions." One cannot fail to connect this omission with the fact that the Religious Tract Society publish at the same time "The Papal Attempt to Re-Convert England" (ls. 6d.), by one born and nurtured" in the Church whose "new aggressive movement" he seeks to combat.

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There is a delightful series of the old standard authors which the publisher has fitly entitled "Books to Have." The latest edition is the ever-green "Arabian Nights' Entertainments," in six eminently companionable volumes

(Gibbings, 15s.). The text chosen is that of E. W. Lane, and there are clever and characteristic illustrations by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, while Mr. Joseph Jacobs, that very crudite scholar, has prepared a critical introduction, in which he claims to have "traced the author" of the Nights." A better edition than this, one better printed, or of a better shape, could not be imagined. In the Golden Treasury Series has appeared the edition of Sir Thomas Brown's beautiful treasuries of seventeenth century wisdom and of English prose, the "Hydrio

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taphia" and "The Garden of Cyrus" (Macmillan, 2s. 6d. net), on which Dr. Greenhill was engaged up till the time of his death; and the same publishers have added to their series of Illustrated Standard Novels a reprint of Captain Marryat's "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (3s. 6d.), with an introduction by Mr. David Hannay, and a great number of illustrations-such good illustrations-by Mr. Fred Pegram. No better book exists as a present for a boy than this, perhaps Marryat's best novel, and it could not appear in more attractive garb.

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HE babies offered for adoption now much exceed in number those desirous of adopting children, consequently the babies have to wait their turn, and must be on our list longer than at first, when the balance was on the other side. As the object of my work in attempting this department is to be the medium of finding children for foster-parents who are without children, yet feel the desire to fill up the blank in their hearts and homes by adopting as their own some of the homeless among the little ones, the work, from the foster-parents' point of view (which is the point of view of the Baby Exchange), does not suffer from the preponderance of the children.

I wish now to state explicitly that no help can be given from the Baby Exchange to those foster-parents who wish for a premium or other payments with the children. A number of letters come with such requests. From this date, no such letters will be noticed, but at once consigned to the waste-paper basket.

The mother of two little boys, respectively eight and five years of age, would be glad to have them adopted. Owing to the death of her husband she is left in very poor pecuniary circumstances. The two boys are goodlooking and intelligent; they are grandsons of one of Her Majesty's Indian Judges.

The following is the usual monthly list of babies offered for adoption:

GIRLS.-Place and date of birth.

(All illegitimate except those marked with an asterisk.)

1. Born July, 1895. London.

May, 1894. Hampshire. Mother alive, will give up all claims. Father deserted his family.

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE "REVIEW OF REVIEWS."

Is published at the beginning of every month. It gives Tables of the Contents in the Periodicals-English, American, and Foreign-of the month, besides an Alphabetical Index of Articles in the leading English and American Magazines. Another feature is a list of the New Books published during the month.

Al. R. A. C. Q.

Price 1d. per month; or 1s. 6d. per annum, post free.

REVIEW OF REVIEWS Office, Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C.

INDEX.

Abbreviations of Magazine Titles used in this Index, which is limited to the following periodicals.

Altruistic Review.

American Catholic Quarterly Review.

A.A. P. S. Annals of the American Academy of

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Political and Social Science.

Antiquary.

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Frack Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Free Review.

Naut. M.

Nautical Magazine.

N. E. M.

New England Magazine.

G. M.

N. I. R.

New Ireland Review.

G. J.

Geographical Journal.

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G. O. P.

Girl's Own Paper.

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Good Words.

Great Thoughts.

N. C.

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Harper's Magazine.

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Bankers' Magazine.

Bibliotheca Sacra.

Bkman.

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J. Ed.

International Journal of Ethics,

Investors' Review.

Irish Ecclesiastical Record.

Jewish Quarterly.

Journal of Education.

J. Micro. Journal of Microscopy.

J.P. Econ. Journal of Political Economy.

J. R. A. S. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society.
J. R. C. I. Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute.

J. R. U. Journal of the Roya! United Service

Institution.

N. A. K.

P. M. M.

P. M.
Phil. R.

P. R. R.

Nineteenth Century.

North American Review.
Outing.

Palestine Exploration Fund.
Pall Mall Magazine.

Pearson's Magazine.

Philosophical Review.
Poet-Lore.

Presbyterian and Reformed Review.

Primitive Methodist Quarterly Review.

Proceedings of the Society for Psychica
Research,

Psychol R. Psychological Review.

Q.J.Econ. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Quarterly Review.
Quiver.

Q. R.

Q.

Rel.

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Reliquary and Illustrated Archæologist Review of Reviews (America).

St. Nicholas.

Science Gossip.

Science Progress.

Scots Magazine.

Scottish Geographical Magazine. Scottish Review.

Scribner's Magazine.

Strand Magazine.

Sunday at Home.

Sunday Magazine.

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Mind.

Mind.

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Mon.

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Missionary Review of the World.
Monist.
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Tom.

U.S. M.

Temple Bar.

To-Morrow.

United Service Magazine.

Westminster Review

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Africa (see also Atlas Mountains, Egypt, Morocco, Tunis):
England's Duty in South Africa, by A. Michie, Black, August.
The New South African Situation, by L. Eufield, Tom, August.
Nature versus the Chartered Company, by Hon. John Scott Montagu, NC,
August.

Why South Africa can wait; Letter by Melius de Villiers, N C, August.
Stray Thoughts on South Africa, by Olive Schreiner, F R, August.
Johannesburg, by E. S. Lang Buckland, C H, July.

Molimo, the God Who promised Victory to the Matabele, by Joseph M.
Orpen, N C, August.

The Murder of Mr. Stokes, Capt. Salusbury on, US M, August.
Agriculture (see also Contents of Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society):
National Wheat Stores, by R. A. Yerburgh, C H, July.

Nitragin, by Dr. C. M. Aikman, C R, August.

Alexander, Archbishop, Interview, by S. Gwynn, Sun M, August.

American History (see also Contents of American Historical Review):

The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism, by Prof. M. C. Tyler, NA R, July.

American People (see also Women):

American Millionaires, C, August.

Anarchism: Something about Anarchism, Fr L, August.

Angell, President, Quarter-Centennial of, M. L. d'Ooge on, F, July. Annelids and Recent Research, L Q, July.

Anthracite Coal: The Utilization of Anthracite Culm, by E. H. Williams, Jr. Eng M, July.

Anthropology: The Early Ages of the Human Race, L Q, July.

Arbitration, see Articles under United States, Venezuelan Question.

Archæology, see Contents of the American Journal of Archæology, Antiquary, Index Library, Reliquary.

Architecture, see Contents of Architecture.
Arctic Regions:

The Curions Race of Arctic Highlanders, by L. L. Dyche, Cos, July.
S. A. Andrée's Balloon Voyage to the North Pole, by A. T. Story, Str, July.
Argyll's (Duke of) "Philosophy of Belief," QR, July.

Aristocracy: The Citizenship of the British Nobility, QR, July.

Armies (see also Contents of Journal of the Royal United Service Institution,
United Service Magazines):

Our Young Soldiers in India, by T. A. Perry Marsh, W R, August.
The Human Animal in Battle, by H. W. Wilson, F R, August.

Arnold, Matthew, and His Letters, by C. A. L. Morse, C W, July.
Assyriology: Babylonia and Elam Four Thousand Years Ago, by T. G.
Pinches, K O, August.

Astrology: How to tell Fortunes by the Stars, by F. Legge, P M M, August.
Astronomy:

Life in the Moon, by Prince Kropotkin, N C, August.
Variable Stars, by Lieut.-Col. E. E. Markwick, K, August.

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