... daily papers seem to be learning wisdom from the provincial- journals, and are clubbing together for original articles, A review of the cricket year, several columns long, has appeared simultaneously in the Daity News, Stan- Gfm-d, Post, Chronicle, and ...

... LECTURER, A little story told by Mr Max O'RelI of an inci- dent in his American lecturing tour appears in the New York Saturday Review. The well. known author was on one occasion delivering his lecture before the students of a religious college. The proceedings ...

... The Money Market Review says Sheba Queen shares have been largely bought during the week on cable orders from South Africa, and the inference is that the mine is looking better than people on this side are as yet aware of. It is confidently predicted ...

... REVIEWS. The Red Dragon, a New Welsh National Song, by E. W. B. Nicholson, B.A., librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with Welsh translation by Watcyn Wyn, price 2s net. This song seems to be the outceme of the recent endeavour to obtain a Welsh ...

... REVIEWS OF BOOKS. The awl/he Jrollk is It charming volume, it is not at all a conventional book, it contains a number of stories whieh occupy some 370 pages, and to these (ire atrial a history of The Monastery of Sail Marco, making another liund-red ...

... REVIEW. BOCTHBY'S SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORY.— This excellent directory, in the fifteenth year of its publication, brings the information as to South Australia up to the latent date. It h Tmhli^hed in London by Mr G. Street, the well-known Colonial agent ...

... Colonial Bonds, Debentures, Ac., bought and Sold at close market prices. Special business in LócaiSecaritief. The Investment Review and Bondholders Guide issued monthly by Messrs Bowyer & Co. is the most reliable and trust. wortVr; publ citiou of tl.e day ...

... REVIEWS. COST BOOK ADVERTISING.—This is the subject of a little book issued by Messrs. J. P. Segrue, Ltd., Gresham-house, E.C. It is a treatise on the rela- tions between the advertising agent and the advertiser, and as such contains a great deal of useful ...

... SIR JOHN GORST AND THE EDUCATION PROBLEM, Sir John Gorsc, in the October number of the North American Review, treating of the prospects of education, declares that an attempt to place an arbitrary limit on the cost of education is as absurd as to place ...

... opened on Tuesday at Croydon, under the presidency of Mrs Creighton. Mrs Temple having welcomed the conference, the President reviewed the aims of the Union, and said an im- portant field of work had been opened by Sir Waiter Besant's proposal tha.t the Union ...

... Mr Spreut, Mr Godfree, Mr J. Sims, Mr J. Davies, and Mr R. A. Sprent. The Secretary's report was read'and adopted. This reviewed the efforts that had been made in con- nection with the various meaaares before Parlia- ment last Session, and especially ...

... the HoesE OF COMMONS, Lord HENRY LExxox moved for a Committee of Enquiry into the loss of the Captain. At some length he reviewed the circumstances atteneliug the construction of this ill-fated ship, the state of the Admiralty, and passed a sweeping ...