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' On the Influence of John Lyly,' according both that of a bird. ' Sportie,' described by Miss Con-
praise and blame to the recently published edition stance E. Maud, is a displeasing specimen of a
of that dramatist's work. The reviews are by Yankee boy. It is to be hoped such
Sir Archibald Geikie, Mr. T. F. Henderson, Dr.
George Neilson, Miss Mary Bateman, and other
well-known writers. In its new shape the review
makes an admirable start.
AN article in the Fortnightly, by M. Octave Uzanne, on ' The Evolution of French Contem-
examples are
not common. In Longman's Mr. Fred W hishaw has a pleasing article on ' Loafing Time,' with an excellent jackdaw story. Mr. Lawrence Gibbs deals with ' Egyptian Irrigation Works.' Mr. Lang, writing from the Highlands, has something to say about an interesting Highland and Jacobite exhi- bition at Inverness, which brings him on to the sub-
porary Literature,' is interesting and slightly pessi- I ject of Queen Mary and the Casket Letters. He
mistic in tone. The sense that in France, as deals with a question of literary ethics first opened
elsewhere, there is at present a dearth of great out in the Athenivum.ln the Gentleman's 'The
men permeates it. To the influence of the Dreyfus England of the Paston Letters' is agreeably anti-
affair the writer attributes the profanation of the quarian. Mr. Percy Fitzgerald writes on ' Jane
temple of literature. A noteworthy expression of Austen's Novels,' a subject much to the fore of
opinion on the part of Ernest Renan is quoted to late. In ' A Literary Highway ' the associations of
trie effect that in fifty years' time no one will open the Dover road are described. Dr. Japp has some
a book. This seems a hard saying, and to us it is interesting correspondence concerning cuckoos in
impossible of acceptance; but the average man, it captivity. Mrs. John Quincy Adams's 'Narrative
must be owned, reads little. ' Legend and Marie of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Paris in 1815,'
Bashkirtseff,' by Prince Bpjidar Karageorgevitch, with an introduction by her grandson, Brooks
proves that the famous diary is anything rather | Adams, constitutes the article of greatest interest
in Scribner's. It is accompanied by a portrait of Mrs. Adams from a miniature. Mr. W. S. Harwood writes on 'State Universities,' his paper being illustrated from photographs. ' The South- West . . from a Locomotive ' is interesting and instructive.
our columns, sends to the Nineteenth Century an Some coloured illustrations of merit accompany a admirable paper on 'The Gardens of Ancient Rome contribution on 'Shooting,' a matter outside our and what Grew in Them.' In the time dealt with | ken. The number is excellent, the woodlands " were not regarded as places of delight and attraction." They were "not yet 'vocales' or ' venerabiles ' so much as dangerous, black, and oracular." The hortus signified indif- ferently an orchard and a garden. Mr. Baddeley dwells upon the homeliness of such Latin aristo- cratic names as the Fabii, the Lentuli, and the Pispnes. His paper is, indeed, full of pleasant antiquarian erudition. Mrs. Maxwell Scott con- cludes her enthusiastic eulogy of Joan of Arc, for
than the " exact, absolute, faithful truth " which the
maid asserted it to be. At the time when she
presented herself as a little girl of twelve she was
sixteen or seventeen. Mr. St. Clair Baddeley,
whose name is sometimes pleasantly conspicuous in
is
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by the editor on 'Phil May, the Man
Artist,' the illustrations to which present many
aspects of May's remarkable talent. There is in
much of his work a vein of notable pathos, to
which the critic does full justice. Phil May is
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Dog 'and 'The Intruder.' Excellent illustrations
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Car ' and the instalment of ' The Queen's Quhair '
Mr Sharp's 'Literary Geography ' deals with the
hnghsh lakes. 'Hotels and Hotel Life in New
York ' has some faithful, but gruesome-looking views
from photographs. ' The Discovery of Radium ' is
good so far as it goes.-' In Guipi'ucoa,' by Mrs
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""Ha, whose life is also briefly told. Mr. Basil
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