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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.'
THE new catalogue of Messrs. Maggs Brothers of Paddington, contains a really remarkable col lection of early English classics and other scam and desirable works.
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