... it is delightful. Messrs Horace Marshall & Son have published an interesting compilation entitled Pen Pic- l tures of the War by ien at thc Front. It con- sists mainly of those incidents of personal ex- pcrienec and of individual adventure which were ...

... has issued Yesterday arid To-Day in Kruger's Land, written by a lady who has personal know-ledge and experience of South Africa, and published in the hope that the booklet will contribute what may help towards the realisa- I tion of a lasting friendship ...

... bloody deeds, nod these are given here in profusion. W; 3o in his Generation. By Philip D:ivenant. (London: John Long.) The war of eonventionalism has, from vacying I r ints ot view, provided seope for many a powerful novel, and perhaps it may be truly ...

... o; a slice of the ancient t \ enetian Republic, the Bonapartist regime and 1 p the Napoleonic wars, the subsequent ill-judged P ; minon with Holland, the War of Independence s d rind the formati of the present kingdom of Belgium. Tho Jirst King of the ...

... NOVELS AND STOBIES. The Outcast Emperor. By the Lady Helen Craven. (London: Hutchinson & Co.) pi South Africa and the Far East have become the happy hunting-ground of the novelist, and Ty f they have been utilised with varying success. n i Lady Helen ...

... during a society wedding. The w v drama is thoroughly up to date, for although te none of the scenes are laid in South Africa, yet in the war is talked about almost throughout. Miss H ?? Fairfax will play the heroine, who is the al IIdaughter of a Peer, but ...

... studded y ve :with appreciations of the latter's cleverness end ge arcistso a.'omoiishmnent. One can eathor that so the French war was a potent factor in reshaping the Prince's politics, but the process is not shown As hns ne.n said, however, the book is ...

... ANTD ski GEOGRAPHY. 31 U'Inder Three Flags in Cuba; a Personal 11Account of the Cuban Insurrection and e Spanish-American W~ar. Byr George s Clarke Musgrave. (London: Gay & °| Bird. ) - Mr Muagrave is an intrepid traveller who has |seen a great deal ...

... i-terr-st in last year's inter- iN national vncht races under the heat of South S African affairs- Now it eems to be South IN Africa's turn to become of none account. b * 4 9* ,. * John M'Whiirter, P.A,, is, perhiaps, best known as a painter in oil, but we ...

... in a private box and dressed in k~haki, was the me actress's husband, M~r Patrick Campbell, whoye hopes to leave for South Africa tius week as a ye.h memuber of the Yeomanry Volunteers. ph The new Gaiety Burlesqule, The M~essen~ger toi i ev, v-a3s to ...

... nal law. Successively he examines the usages in peace and war of the Israelites, the Greeks, and the Romans, until we reach, in the writings of Polybius, an international circle, laws N of war, and common laws of man- kind ( jus gentium-). As the Roman ...

... Messrs G. W. Bacon & Co., 127 Strand, Lon- don. have issued a handy war atlas, which, in addition to the several maps, contains a geo- graphical and historical sketch of South Africa, a naval and military glossary, and a Beer history ' in brief. Briars ...