... EOMANIOML There is always sniethins fascinating in a well.told'story 3f the East: at least to Western readers, for whom it in a land of gorgeous colour and strange mysteries. This story is certainly well-told and ita incidents are as wildly exciting ea the ...

... in the English Army, those desiring a soldier's life being forced to seek it in foreign countries. The hero is a young officer in the Irish Brigade, which for many years after the siege of Limerick formed the backbone of the French Army. Ile goes through ...

... MAGAZINES FOR APRIL. [SECOND NOTICE.J The Young Woman has a character sketch of Mrs Joseph Chamberlain, of whom It gives a very pleasing portrait. The article is written by a l Birmingbam journalist, whose awe of the great man I of Birmingham creeps ...

... to feel annthing but contempt and dislike for Gentleman Jack,' whose besetting sin lands him in a rerminous condition on Svdne-y Docks beneath the eyes of the woman who loves him. W'c are glad he was ultimately 'redeemed. and succeeafled in hs nmining ...

... regions aboot Greenland, where I have beeau enuaged, there is I lasd-real, solid land, not the wlere Lmockery of it, like the shifting pack that was about us here With land at hand prolonged journeys are always possible, but what were we to do on a moving ...

... prepared itself} to make a desperate stand against the entire Greek Army. The hstonishibent which they mpst have felt may be imuagined when they realised that instead of an entire army having come against them, the pursuing forceitumbered considerably ...

... Jolt of waggou and jerk of train; .y Up the sides of a wat'ry world- e (God's blue banner, the sky, unfurled) le Back to the land *here their hearts have. been, it Rome come the Soldiers to their Queeu. d I. 'I Crackle or rifle, lire of gun, d Sense and ...

... JUNE4 MWAGAZINES. Plenty O? General5. ie Ibe British Army has at this moment a c El ]arger proportion of Generals who have seea active E a service in the field than is possessed by tbat of t any other couLtrY, writes Robert Macniray ia the E r attractive ...

... SIDE. an Wl 1hen a clever.-'woman a-nd anl unscrun E0 ed pullous man put their beads together on the tli an stage, and' between 'them evolve a plot for thet- n- happincess-or ot-herwvise--of another mran and n-. woman, they usually do something that ...

... oats are; and I on the recdaimed lands, and those lands overflowed by the freshets on sorne of the rivers, the vield is from one ! hundrd and twenty-five to one hundred and fiftv bushels to the seae. Some of these low lands have been raising oats steadily ...

... attendance, landed to explore the town. Major CheritAn, who had not yet ventured to formally commit himself as a voltmnteer, in view of the disapprobation of the WVar Office, now sum- moned up courage to purchase a weapon. The Greek Army used the rifle ...

... thy hand, My Royal Mistress, may true homage pay; In duty breathe thy name wlhene'er I pray, May speak thy praises in a loyal land, This sea-girt centre of thy Empire grand. Victoria ! glory of the entire world, Sublimely does thy standard float unfuri'd ...