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ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.*

... Asia is the preservation of India. Lord Salisbury, as we know, has within the last few years ridiculed the idea of a Russian invasion of India, suggesting to alarmists of the Burnaby-type, the map cure. He went further. In his despatch to the Governor-General ...

THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF TOURS

... there. The truth was that the railway station did not contain a single musket or a grain of powder. The alarm caused by the invasion was great. An omnibus met the advancing columns in the Rue Royaleg and the driver pulled up, whereupon two women, the only ...

NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS

... College, Oxford, by An Old Student (-Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.). Pp. 447. The Local Examination History frombefore ?? invasion to the Present Time, by R. S., Pringle, LL.D. (John Heywood). New edition. Pp. 19& A History of the Legislative Union of ...

SOCIETY OF ARTISTS' EXHIBITION

... Last Chapter, anti The Princess with the Golden Ball ; Lighting the Beacon, by Mr. J. E, Hodson, an incident in the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada; Mr. Eyre Crowe's Knighting the Sirloin ; The Beau's Stratagem, by Mr. E. C. Barnes; ...

MORE CHRISTMAS-GIFT BOOKS

... present story is the moderniued version of an olden record related by a Norseman, who with his companions (after the Danish invasion of England in 1003) sailed away from the Isle of Thanet to North America, and from there round by Green- land, the North ...

NEW BOOKS

... introductory memoir is, of ctuirse, highly sympathetie, as may be jud'ed by its closing sentences: Had Grouchy tin the irench invasion of 1796] been equal to the situation, had he yielded to the importunitiesof Tone, and landedat Ban- try Bay, Ireland would ...

DEAN MERIVALE AND HIS TIMES

... never been before one. . . . . The world has sustained few greater misfor- tnnes than Agricolas failing to mace his proposed invasion. The Romans were the only people who could and would have subdued the Irish. They would have smashed them in the first year ...

CÆSAR IN KENT

... investigated the lusmar and tidal part of the argument nearly two centuries ago, and on the publicatios of Mr. Lewin'.s OCesars Invasion of Britain, in 1862, the subject was regarded with so mueh interest that the Admiralty, at the request of the Society of ...

SIR JAMES GRAHAM AT CARLISLE

... had 'the effect, if ever the design was entertained, which I will not confidently assert-the mad design of attempting an invasion of this country-I think the spirit displayed by the inhabitants has diverted any ouch intention, and lagree that it is 'most ...

LITERARY NOTES

... immediatepublication by Mr. Elliot Stock. It gives an ?? of the preparations made in the county of Huantingdon toresist toe invasion of 1588, and contains mucc inforrnat:oa from original and local sourcesi which has not been published before. Rudyard Kipling's ...

LOUIS NAPOLEON ON JULIUS CÆSAR.*

... campaigns in Gaul. It A special interest for all English readers also, ; describes fully and graphically the First -Second Invasions of Britain by the Roman -,s under Caesar, eighteen centuries ago. As the ' e contains noi e than seven hundred pages, we ...