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seems to be the subject most in evidence. Max
Nordau's 'Conditions of Success,' Mr. Richard
Davey's 'Yet a Few More French Facts,' Mr.
Claude Phillips's ' Impressions of the Bruges Exhi-
bition,' and Mr. Firth's ' The Bodleian Library' are
all the contents to which we can refer. Max
Nordau would include ambition with " the daily
bread and the woman" as the incentives to human
effort among men raised above the level of animality.
This view is specially illustrated from America,
where ambition is most widespread, and the aurea
mediocritas has the fewest partisans. The article
is a quaint piece of paradox. Mr. Claude Phillips is
largely occupied with JanVan Eyck and his followers,
and Mr. Davey with the utterances of M. Thiers.
Mr. Davey deals incidentally with the present
position of the French Government with regard
to Church and State. The most valuable contri-
bution of all is Mr. Firth's on the Bodleian, which
repays careful study. In the Nineteenth Century
and After things are little better. Literature is
represented only by a crude article on Jane Austen
by Mr. Lord, a writer who thrust himself recently
into a position of more publicity than dignity.
Sir Robert Anderson continues his theorizing con-
cerning ' Professional Criminals,' which again is a
subject unsuited to pur columns. The critical por-
tion of the review is occupied entirely with ' The
Education Bill.' In her ' In Danish and Russian
Old- Age Homes' Miss Edith Sellers shows that
both Denmark and Russia turn to better account
than England the money spent on aged poor. In
the very worst of the town homes " life smacks of
paradise compared with life in the day-room of our
London workhouse." Yet the cost in England per
head is higher than in either Denmark or Russia.
It is interesting to find from Mrs. Walter Creyke's
' Spa and its English Associations ' that so early as
the time of Henry VIII. Spa was in repute with
English travellers. The article has pleasant his-
torical and antiquarian interest. Among residents
in Spa appears to have been Charles II. in the
period of his wanderings. The Earl of Mayo has
an article on ' Swedish Trout Fishing.' In the Pall
Mall Capt P. H. Fawcett recommends Morocco as
' A New Touring Ground.' Portions of Morocco
are familiar enough to the travelled English-
man, and Tangier is a popular wintering - place
and has European hotels. It is not, however,
specially African. An excursion into the heart of
Morocco is another matter, and is not to be
commended to the average globe-trotter. Capt.
Fawcett shows some admirable illustrations from
photographs. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew's ' Impres-
sions of London and Londoners in Coronation Year '
is, of course, highly interesting and valuable. In
common with many other visitors to our shores, he
is impressed with admiration for the conduct oi
our police. Mr. A. W. Jarvis tells 'The Strange
Story of the Beautiful Miss Walpole,' which is illus-
trated by Reynolds prints. Mr. Holt Schooling's
article on ' Gesture and Facial Expression ' invites
the reader to take part in a competition. 'A
Mystery of the South Seas ' has archaeological value.
Part II. of 'As Others See Us' continues anony-
mous. ' The Dangers of the Alps ' speaks of light-
ning as one of the most capricious of storm perils,
and narrates some of its strange freaks. No. II. in
' Prospects in the Professions ' in the Cornhill deals
with the Bar, and gives particulars with which
many are necessarily familiar, since every other
man in London society seems to be a barrister, but
by which some, doubtless, may profit. No. III. of
Dr. Garnett's ' Alms for Oblivion ' is occupied with
the minor writings of Charles Brockden Brown,
of which an appreciative account is given. Mr.
C. Oman has some amusing illustrations on the
' Writing of English Verse.' ' With George Wither
in Hampshire ' is readable, and some good things
are said about the delightful, but too prolific poet.
We doubt, however, whether Mr. Sidgwick is quite
enough of an enthusiast. Sir WilliamTjaird Clowes
describes a remarkable ' Adventure in Saint Vin-
cent.' ' Some Peasant Women ' is a pleasant article
of an unfamiliar type. In Longmans Mr. Lang has
a good deal to say in ' At the Sign of the Ship ' on
our new Academy. From this he diverges to six-
penny novels with a passing suggestion of a " six-
penny academy." Thence we pass to cricket and
the Quaternary Period in France, and end with the
house of John Knox. Whatever he writes about,
Mr. Lang is always an entertaining companion with
a pleasant vein of cynicism. The Rev. John Isabell
describes ' The Behaviour of Animals in Unfamiliar
Circumstances.' Among the contributors is Miss
Alice Comyns Carr with a quaint story more
quaintly headed ' A Frog he would a- wooing Go.'
Mr. Isabell also writes in the Gentleman's on
'Life-saving Appliances of Beetles.' Mr. Lennard
has an article on 'The Bodleian.' Mr. Williams
sends part ii. of the account of ' Phineas Pett,
Naval Constructor,' and Mr. Gordon treats of
Some Early Art Sales.'
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