... ? EW BOOKS OF THE WEEK. HISTORY, ARCHIOLOGY. AND BIOGRAPHY. South Africa, Past and Present, An Account of its History, Politics, and Native Affairs. Fol-; !owed by some Personal Reminiscences of African 1 ITravel during the Crisis preceding the War. By ?? R. Markham. Portraits, &c. (London: Smith Elder & Co.) London to Ladysmith via Pretora. By Winston Spencer Churchill. (Londoa: Long- ...

... The British Section. I - leA (FROM o0n SrECIAL CoEEESro0WEiNT.) r Paris, April 12. atF In former communications from Paris at this I I time I have dealt with the Exhibition build. of ings from the outside, without seeking to Br arrive at any conclusion as to the representa- pr *te tive character of the contents of the various' Courts. Yesterday I spent several hours at the ti Champ de Mars. ...

... |POETRY, TERSE, AND DRAMA. Eros' Throne. By George Ives. (Lon- - i. don : Swan Sonnenschein & Co.) I5 I It is not an uncommon custom amaong poets to on e place their title-poems, not at the beginning, but ?? ain the middle, or at the end of their books. Thisht latter is what George Ives has done with his chief pr poem, which is a series of lyrical pieces -treating-of re y separate points of ...

... IHjSTDRY, AR(HPOIOGY, AYD BI~~s7:m X 9 Life and Times of Donald Cargill, Minis- ter of the Barony Church, Glasgorw. f By Rev. W. H. Carslaw, M.A. Heroes of the Covenant Series, (Paisley: .8 Alexander Gardner.) f Donald Cargill succeeded Zachary Boyd as minister of the Barony Parish, Glasgow. As a was no uncommon thing in those troublous times, e the charge had been vacant for a couple of n ...

... NEW BOOKS OF TEE WEEK. HISTORY. ARCHX;OLOGY. AND I BIOGRAPHY. The Dictionary of National Biogr4phy. Vol; d I LXIII. Wordsworth-Zuylesteirt. (London: a Smith, Elder & Co.) R A History of the Baronetage. By Franeis t WV Pisley. (Londion: Duckworth & Co.) The Westminster Biographies. Robert k Browning. By ArthnrWanggh. (London:Kegan c Paul, Trench, Trubner & Go.) a 'Mlaieking. a Diary of ...

... FINE,&,S, Mr Chadies Van B=eele is at esen2 in his West George Stree galte a I lon of notable pictures Te mostvibtert ing, we, do not say the most iinpcrtaea of senes, is a large l A ent by Sidney Cooper It a paise in 1 it «s ely manood of an artist no,,, ...

... EITroiy. ARCIHJOLOGY, AND it BIOGRAPHIY. i di rI A Mlemoir of L R. E.Princess M~ary Adelaiide, bE . Duchess of Tcok, Based on her Ptivate Diaries 'in dand Lecters. ByC.KinlochCooke. TwvoVols.l rortraita and Illustrations. (London: John, .John Rnakin. A Sketch of his Life, his Ci W'crlk, and his Opinions, with Personal R- I i; nminascene*s. By C. li. Spielmann. Tozettier w4 with a Paper by ...

... i MYOBBOOKSANDNEWEDITIONS. ? 1. by-tl 1. The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, of ari and Advancement of Learning, of Francis artist Bacon. 2. The Playa of Richard Brinsley in nu Sheridan. (London: Macmillan & Co. (Limited). These two volumes inaugurate an- Mr other Library of English Classics. The aim volun of the publishers, it is stated, will be to give soldic complete and accurate ...

... NOVELS AND STOBM. lbe, She Stands Alone: the Story of Pilate's States of ;he Wife. By Mark Ashton. (Londonr.W-ee wt at Hutchinson & Co.) its inspir, ts Mr Ashton laboirs under the conviction that dedicatiot Ms led the Christian Church has grievously slighted Grante- tb rig Pilate's wife in persistently declining to recog- been wri by nise at its proper worth her warning intercession ...

... LITERATURE l - - C d I EW BOOKS OF YESTERDAY. Mr Thomas Atkins. By E. J.ary, M.A. s '-3odern Italy, 1748-1893. By Pietro Orsi. Story of the Nations Series. (London: T. Fisher ,n Unwin.) I The Boer States: Land and People. By,V A. e. KEane. With 'Map.- Evolution. By P 1 rani B. Jevonn, M.A., D.Litt.- Marvels and c Mysteries By Richard Marsh. (London: fi MNethuen & Co.) t Life and ...

... -MUSIC -AD THB DRAMA. ., . ?? I -- LnoSirday &XlgLs Ma ML Cesar Thomson was th. principal attrao- cU tion at the Crystal Palace Concert yesterday, and the audience was again a large one, though.i be not so big as at the first concert in the previous I week. MA. Thomson is no stranger here, al- A though he has not been to the Crystal Palace for: is seome few years past. He is essentially a ...

... NLEWV BOOKS OF THE WvESEK. T1 al I ?? ?? ?? ~ A\1 HISTORY. ARCH2EOLOGY, AND BIOGRAPHY, have Memnories and Impreas:ions, 1S31-lflf0. r, Re ~coc the Hon. George Charhs Brodick. (London: which Jame.sNisbet&6Co.) E. H. Viestminster College, Carobridce. An Ac- p t COUnlt of the O)pening of the Cuil1eg, at Camor:t'fge o n la on 17th October, 15110, witti a Hfistory of cbs C'P) into fi lege from ...