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... up-the notes at that time were signed by hand-anrd placed 20 of tlens in the bands of a young lady he was courting. wishing to show himself off as a rich man. One of the enngravers he had employed informed against him, the result being that he wvas tried ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Foreign Policy of Great Britain,, a work having. for its object to trace the continuous development of that policy, and. to show that, though now and again distorted, or even reversed, by dynastic interests, by careless diplomacy, by erratic statesmanship ...

LITERATURE

... elassify objects of such diversity as the god types of Grcek mythology, Egyptian and Assyrian furniture, the classic ?? metal, Chelsea and Crown Derby ware, and .pages-from the Lyme missalof Caxton. The word ornament, too, has bad associatians as 'well as 'good ...

LITERATURE

... Marv H Krout.-Yagvrics. By Axel Munthe. -s Lord's Prayer. By the Late E. M1. Goulburo D.D. (London: John Murray.) The Old Chelsea. Bun-Shop. By the Antho: of Marv Powell. Illustrations by. Join Jellicoe and Herbert Railton. (London; Job; C. INineo.) ...

LITERATURE

... IPepysiana volume, also, the f rontispiece is a portrait of the Diariat. It is dated 1687, and is of special interest as showing him at a rather later date thban any of the othe~r portraits. A remarkable circumstance about it is that it is but little ...

INTERNATIONAL ART AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE

... interesting and generally the most instruc- five in thi study of the vital art of the year of any cne of the three impotatnt shows that now open annually in: London. Possibly it does not yet c quite carry out its name, at all events the p'o- peition of foreign ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... well-known a text-book, which was first published about twenty years ago, was much needed, and a mere Iglance at its ptages shows that it has been largely re-cast and extended in order to bring it once more up to date. Perhaps there is no easier 'ay of ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... 62'f2m- apenial Buildings-Lud-gste Circus, London, has issued 't new map-show~ing- the 'Hannan's Gold- fields, West Australia. The-,map, is!-printed in- colours, -and shows -the .odes,.boundazies-of pro§: pcabas,m.rallwys, telegraphs, watrxzigla,-kc ...

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

... was a- -ho, when the present Lord-Licotenant of Ire- I land, then Lord Chelsea, vwas her father's guest on some political occasion, insisted on speaking ilof him as Mister Chelsea. His master reproved !: him, and John, with a fine scorn of etiquette. ...

NOVELS AND STORIES

... Yor I position s at first at anyrate, very much that I ed of Caml1710 and Jane Weish in the most distracted i days ot she Chelsea existence. That is to say, .y I the musician is absorbed. in his work to the I hY |almosttotal neglect of his wife; and the ...