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" Hamlet." ' Every thinking man with the power of
expressing himself can supply a theory of ' Hamlet.'
Mr. Perceval Landon's ' To Paardeberg ' is a striking
piece of descriptive writing. Prof. Heilprin de-
scribes ' Mont Petee in its Might.' In ' The Incom-
patibles ' the Rev. A. Galton deals with what seems
to be a new schism in the English Roman Church.
It is an interesting and important article, but we
should like to know more concerning the author's
right to speak. ' Mankind in the Making,' by Mr.
H. G. Wells, is a first instalment of what bids fair
to be a thoughtful comment on modern existence.
Many valuable articles appear in tha Nineteenth
Century, though there are few of them with which
we are able to concern ourselves. Of distinctly
literary papers there are only two, neither of
them of very special interest. Lord Nelson writes
on 'Hymns, Ancient and Modern,' a subject on
which he is an authority. In an account on
p. 466 of Keble's alterations of Watts the first
two lines in the fourth verse must be wrongly
divided, or Keble's alteration is as incorrect
as regards rhythm as it is prosaic in feeling.
Mr. James Mew writes on 'Hafiz,' an interest-
ing subject, but is a little strained and obscure in
style. Mr. Fitzroy Bell deals with ' Education in
Egypt,' and supplies some strange particulars con-
cerning the native educational arrangements. A
great advance seems, however, to be in progress.
Mr. Ernest A. Savage writes of ' The Bodleian
Library,' and shows with what strange neglect it
was treated during the eighteenth century and the
first half of the nineteenth. Sir Robert Hunter pro-
tests against ' The Inclosure of Stonehenge,' and
Mary H. Witt has a good paper on ' The Exhibition
of Early Flemish Art in Bruges.' The Rev. John M.
Bacon writes hopefully concerning ' The Develop-
ment of the Air-Ship,' and thinks that before
long the problem of its use will be solved. Mr.
Percy Rowland has an interesting contribution
upon ' The Beginnings of an Australian National
Character.' Miss Edith Sellers shows the hope-
lessness of existence ' In the Day-Room of a
London Workhouse,' and describes matters in
which we go sadly astray. The Pall Mall opens
with sketches of 'The New Prime Minister and
the Old,' both accompanied by portraits. Mr. T. P.
O'Connor is responsible for the letterpress. 'As
Others See Us ' is an account by an American who
elects to remain anonymous of English writers of
more or less eminence. Prof. Meldola, in 'The
Struggle for Life,' deals with mimetic insects. The
facts stated and the illustrations supplied are
interesting, but we are not sure that the explana-
tion is in every case convincing. Mr. Alfred
Kinuear deals with what was once called ' The
Best Club in Europe,' but no longer merits the
appellation. One of the illustrations shows the
proposed new billiard-table, with a three-handed
game between the leaders of the two parties and
Mr. Labouchere officiating as marker. Imitating
Mr. William Archer, Mr. F. Lees gives, under the
title of ' The Forbidden Play,' an account of a not
very stimulating interview with M. Maeterlinck.
An interesting description is furnished of fast travel-
ling in France. The first of what appears likely to
be a trustworthy series of articles on ' Prospects in
the Professions begins with the navy, the advan-
tages and chances of which are well worth the
study of paterfamilias. Viscount St. Gyres gives an
account of the man of all others most mercilessly
chaffed in his lifetime, Martin Farquhar Tupper.
It appears that the poor creature was ambitious of
a peerage, instead of which he had to content him-
self with a much-needed pension from the Civil
List. It is said that " vulgar Philistine self-
righteousness was his watchword, flunkeyism and
sectarian hatred [were] his stock-in-trade." Lady
Grove describes the discomforts of ' Hotels as
Homes.' Mr. A. I. Shaud depicts agreeably enough
' The England of Arthur Young and Cobbett.' Mr.
H. Hutchinson has a characteristic article ' On a
Forest,' and Mr. Oswald H. Latter deals with
' Wasps.' Mr. C. B. R. Kent, in Longman'.?, has a
sensible paper on ' The Parliamentary Machine,'
and Mr. W. H. Hudson describes vividly scenes of
country life in ' A Shepherd of the Downs,' of
which the first part only is given. In his ' At the
Sign of the Ship' Mr. Andrew Lang has some
pregnant thoughts on dreams, and deals amusingly
with the Carnegie-Morley bequest. He also writes
on the divining-rod. In the Gentleman's Mr. E. W.
Williams gives an account of ' Phineas Pett, Naval
Constructor,' the builder of the once-famous Sove-
reign of the Sea. Mr. Thomas Bayne shows high
appreciation of ' Thomas Aird, Journalist and Poet,'
of whom he gives a good biography. Miss Benve-
nuta Solomon writes on ' London in Verse,' but
omits the nearest approach to a rhapsody London
has provoked Capt. Morris's
Oh, give me the sweet, shady side of Pall Mall !
WITH much regret we hear of the death, at his
residence in Water Street, Stamford, of Mr. Joseph
Phillips, Clerk to the Kesteven County Council.
The deceased gentleman, who enjoyed a high local
reputation, was born 18 February, 1824. He was
during many years a contributor to our columns,
his name appearing in our latest volume.
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