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... East and West Africa where they touched. layli brtlight sugar cans from the East Indies, and introdfuced it to the Congo I and Angola countries and elsewhere. From their gcrc ;t possession of Brazil tbey brought to tasct a.md West Africa the! ,jnscovy ...

INFEW BOOKS OFrTHE W

... Mtarstun &s Co.) H listory of the British Armny. Bthe Hon. J. W. Frtescue. Firstt Part. To the Close of the Seven-Years' War. Two Vole. (London: Mac- millan & Co.) The Transvaal and the Boers. A Short History of the South African Republic, with a ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... MUSIC AND THE DRAM1A. | WAR DRAMA AT THE PRINCESS'S. (mOtM OUR OWM CORESPONDEST.) _ London, Sunday Night. The Absent-Minded Beggar is the not very happy title of a war melodrama from the pen of Mr Arthur Shirley, which was produced at the! Princess's ...

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... conceivable reason why he should not set about his further task forthwith. (2) TI Beers in A frica The story of the Boers of South Africa is foll of romance as well as of squalor and sorrow, but unfortunately it is rarely presented toust without a good deal of ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... words, is as follows:- I maintain that war has become impossible I alike fron a military, economic, and political, point of view. The very development that has taken i place in the mechanism of war has rendered war au impracticable operation. The dimensions ...

PANTOMIMES

... that she is mas- querading, MIrs Crusoe proposes to undertake 3 tasks which are not usually performed on board l a man-of-war. In consequence of disobeying orders and trying to make the sailors discon- tented she is court-martialled. The trial is E ...

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... interior of I r Africa was a complete blank from the Tropic of I c Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn, tbh Congol ( was hardly a mark on the maps, and we knewi IL nothing of the source of the Nile. The inter- national interest in Tropical Africa dates from ...

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... of the 'drift of present day studies at Oxford. 'Whe Story of West Africa. By Mary E. Kingsley. (The Story of the Empire Series.) (London: Horame Marshall & Son.) Although West Africa has had an eventful and often picturesque history, it is not a region ...

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... How England Saved Europe, the Story of the Great War (1793-1815). By W. II. Fitcheth In Four Vols. Vol. I. (Londlon: Smith, Eider & Co.) | The title o- this popular history of the great i French war nas of course been suggested by the famous words in ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... ? - ' l, ii s, fur Soicth Africa ?? to c. c- n ?? M~ountedl Rifles, in I --cirri' i. a'ci. d Christmras inl Paris, ?? hL st'rt cMody. sailing for - ~ciaby t ~ front Socuthampton o~n ''cc 3Io'. t',o ' ' ictims of the war is MacorSototxc i x. ournded ...

LITERARY NOTES AND GOSSIP OF THE WEEK

... also ready Lhs Rings. ley's Stery of West Africa i ' and Dr M3rgan 'Grace's Sketch of the New Zealand War, both of which contain m hitherto unpublished information. Dr ra,*; book is the first account of tne war vrix b Maoris which is based on an oitl ...