... REVIEWS. SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA.* ON reading the dedication of Canon Knox Little's book- To the Right Hon. Cecil J. Rhodes, a far-seeing statesman and a faithful friend- the average reader will probably at once conclude that the work is ...

... REVIEWS. A DERELICT.* IN our estimate of William Morris and of his works the most important factor will ever be his extraordinary and compelling personality. Hiss vitality, his energy, and his power of imposing on indifferent and' even hostile persons ...

... :'REVIEWS. THE CONSCIENTIOUS ESSAYIST.* IN his initial essay Mr. Lacon, Watson tells us what the idedl essay should ' be. .Montaigne lie informs- us'with judgmenti'is- the true founder, of 'tihe essay proper, and he praises his delightful inconsequence ...

... REVIEWS. STORIES IN SCENES.` OF plays Ewith any merit in them at all there are three varieties: the play that reads well in the closet, but is barely endurable on the stage; the play that may be witnessed with pleasure, though it cllot be read without ...

... REVIEWS. SIR. HENRY RAWLINSON.A SIR HENRY RAWLINSON was one of that particular class of distin- guished men more frequently found (we like to think) in the public service ok this country than in that of other lands. These men are characterized by an aptitude ...

... REVIEWS. THE ANARCHISM OF A LITERARY MAN.* THE Sieur Vaillant and Count Tolstoy-one who throws bombs, and the other who teaches that neither the force of the assassin nor the force of the avenging police is to be resisted-claim or accept alike the name ...

... REVIEWS. THE HATFIELD PAPERS. -t fifth volume of the Calendar of the Cecil Papers, which the istorical Muanuscripts Commission has just published, embraces the ;fneen months from October, 1594, to December, 1595. That is to , the Armada had been fought ...

... REVIEWS. PORTRAIT OF AN AUTHOR.* A DEVILISH interesting story ! s aid Mr. Wagg when the Captain told how himself, Byron, Hobhouse, Trelawiney, and Cardinal. Mezzo- caldo drank Orvieto at dinner, and h1ow the Cardinal, who regretted that he was a single ...

... REVIEWS. A; BRACE OF GOOD TALES.' THIERE is scarcely any author of our day who writes with such unfailing cleverness and so sustains his reputation as Mr. Bret Harte. It must be quite a quarter of a century since the short tales which I introduced him ...

... REVIEWS. WE ARE SEVEN.* NEVER say we live in a dull, prosaic age, when one humble person is invited bv seven poets at once, all crowned with laurel, or at least bound in white samite, and that sort of thing, to foot it on Parnassus. But the pity of it ...

... REVIEWs. MR. G. BERNARD SHAW'S PLAYS.* JULES LEMAITRE has somewhere observed that in selecting his house- keeper as audience Moliere for all time condemns the intellectual pre- tensions of the theatre. The assertion is somewhat too sweeping to be altogether ...

... REVIEWS. OLD STYLE AND NEW.* THERE are books that delight the man as they delighted the boy before the man; and there are books w.vherefrom he strives in vain to recapture that abounding happiness which they gave him in the blessed years du temps jadis ...