... the margins are ample, and the numerous illustrations are printed with extreme care. Of the illustrations, however, we will speak when we have given an outline of Mr. Hamerton's journey. He wished to explore the river Saone from as near its source as might ...

... of the herd; the Cyprian the most fertile. Is it true that bees are not indigenous in America? Bates (Amazons) distinctly speaks of a breed which has not yet learned to economise space and material by making its cells octagonal. The So/. offered last ...

... at the HAY.14ARKET, and its place has been taken by Mr. Robert Buchanan's new drama, entitled Partners, of which we shall speak next week. At the SURREY there is a good rollicking old-fashioned panto- ?? and the Little Old Man of the Sea-in which Mr. ...

... Hugh Conway (Patey and Willis), to some extent from the pale of legitimate criticism. Fortunately, however, it is possible to speak with praise of the collection as a whole; they were written for music, but rise rather above the level of the ordinary drawing- ...

... brigade. The exits from every part of it are numerous, and lead to stone staircases, besides which, the house is divided, so to speak, into two halves, with entrances from west and east doors. To give still further security, iron ladders lead from the gallery ...

... be by Benvenuto Cellini. Strangely enough, this has by some been attributed to Baccio Banclinelli, whose work Cellini often speaks of with profound contempt. Whoever modelled it, was master of his art. The small works in cases are full of interest, but ...

... sea story pure and simple, unspoiled by those elements of love or land in which Mr. Russell, as a writer at any rate, is-to speak para- doxically- all at sea. The story is something like a yarn. It tells how, in consequence of a magnificently-described ...

... is 1 In Fairyland, by J. Cliffe Forester. -The charm of Margaret, a tuneful waltz by Gilbert Byass. is enhanced by a speaking portrait of Miss Ellen Terry in the character of the ill-fated heroine of Goethe's tragedy Faust.-The same may be said of ...

... Charles, it will be at the cost of the national safety. . . . Let me once more try to impress upon my readers that, humanly speaking, we can trust for our protection in the last resort only to our own strong arm. I understand that Lord Salisbury thinks that ...

... the murder, when Edric of Mercia has met the just reward of his treason. This is a noble passage,-the half-distraught King speaks:- The stars Have steadfast faces, and prefix our doom; It is the wandering comets lead astray With unsteered courses. What ...

... Alpha van het Alphabet der Kleuren (Folmer, Gronin- gen) reminds us how far fewer are the Englishmen who speak Dutch than the Dutchmen who speak English. The sixty sheets of illustrations contain every contrast and combination of colour drawn with the ...

... of Maho- metanism, it is important to learn, fiom so practised an observer, A POLITICAL ORATOR MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, M.P., SPEAKING AT A PUBLIC DINNER SCOUTS OBSERVING THE APPROACH OF AN EVICTING PARTY STUDIES FROM LIFE IN IRELAND--II. BY OUR SPECIAL ARTIST ...