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Major Stuart Wortley, called 'With the Sirdar. -
Mr Clark Russell continues, in the Pall Mall, his
capital series of papers on ' The Ship : her Story,'
and deals with the ships of Columbus, which he
describes as " the most interesting vessels that were
ever built, that were ever afloat, that are to be read
of in ancient or modern literature." A picture of
the ship of Columbus is given. Large and important
ships were not built in England until the time of
Henry VIII. We are then shown some Spanish
galleons and ships belonging to the Armada, and,
again, English and Dutch ships of the time of Van
Tromp. Some fine pictures are reproduced in an
account of the recent Rembrandt Exhibition in
Amsterdam. Part i. appears of ' Naval Heroes at
Westminster Abbey,' showing the tombs of Blake,
Monck, Sir Cloude'sley Shovel, and others. Very
beautiful are the views of Cambridge illustrating
4 Lines written in the Court of a College Library/
'Suppressed Plates: No. 1, Thackeray,' will appeal
to collectors. 'The Fall of Khartoum' will,
by letterpress and illustrations, appeal to all.
'Humours of Bird Life,' sent to the Cornhill by
Lady Broome, describes very pleasantly the charm
of bird-keeping under circumstances more propitious
than can often attend the proprietorship of an
aviary. Some of her revelations are startling.
Once, when she received a consignment of tiny parra-
keets, and put them into a cage with canaries, she
discovered that these birds, apparently so gentle,
were in the habit of sidling up to a canary and
suddenly biting off a leg. Another bird, a member
of the shrike family, used to twist off, occasionally,
the head of a finch. Miss Edith Sichel descants very
agreeably on ' Women as Letter- Writers,' and does
not forget dear Dorothy Osborne, in some respects
the best. Mr. Duffield's study of ' Daniel O'Connell '
is full of amusing anecdote. ' Hovelling,' by Frank
T. Bullen, is a record of heroism. ' The Etchingham
Letters 'are continued. In Temple Bar Mr. F. C.
Hodgson begins, in ' Optimists and Pessimists,' with
Sophocles and ^Eschylus, to end with Daudet and
Nietzsche, bringing in by the way Schopenhauer
and Ibsen, the latter of whom is not regarded
wholly as a pessimist. The paper is both thought-
ful and erudite, and if it is not conclusive, there
is no cause for astonishment or complaint. An esti-
mate of ' Christopher North ' deals with the curious
fact that Wilson, once a great power in letters,
is now practically dead. An attempt is made to
account for what is really a somewhat startling fact.
Daudet attracts much attention at present, and a
narrative of the sad experiences of his early life is
readable, if not particularly novel. 'The Man-
chester of Portugal' is a description of Covelha.
In the Gentleman's Mr. M. Q. Holyoake criticizes
the last writings of Landor. in this some curiously
characteristic correspondence of the ebullient poet
is given. Mr. J. Ellard Gore, F.R.A.S., writes on
- The Names of the Stars.' Mr. W. H. Olding has a
thoughtful paper on ' Oaths and the Law,' and Miss Pauline W. Roose shows a wide range of reading in dealing with 'The Poets' Heaven/ The English Illustrated has made recently a new departure with its coloured printing, which is very successfully accomplished. It has, in addition to its striking cover, many coloured designs of remarkable beauty. The letterpress consists principally of fiction, though a portion of it deals with sport, and another portion will prove very tempting to the fair sex. Anthony Hope tells the story of his comedy of ' Lady Ursula.' ' The Devil's Own' is occupied not
with the legal volunteers, but with picturesque
spots dedicated to his Satanic Majesty. ' M.P.s
and their Fads' is amusing. In Longman's Mr.
Rider Haggard continues his 'Farmer's Year.'
Under the title 'A Paladin of Philanthropy,' Mr.
Austin Dobson depicts General James Edward
Oglethorpe, whom Hannah More called a Preux
Chevalier. Mr. Lang appears to have inconvenient
doubles or trebles, who under his name incur for
him suspicions which are groundless and attacks
which are unmerited. These he answers ' At the
Sign of the Ship.' In the United Service Magazine
the short biographies of our naval heroes are con-
tinued, the Hon. A. N. Hood supplying that of
King Edward III. Naturally, the claim of this
illustrious sovereign to be a naval hero is not so
fully supported as is his right to be considered as
one of the foremost military leaders of his time. In
his own person he gained two signal naval victories,
and established a Board of Admiralty. The articles
on Cuba and Turenne are continued. The latter is
well written, and possesses great interest for the
military student. Lieut. -Col. de la Poer Beresford
furnishes a graphic description of Krasnoe-Selo, the
Russian Aldershot. We think that he errs in
stating that, in the magnificent regiments of the
Chevaliers Gardes and Gardes k Cheval, men are
posted to squadrons according to their "complexion
and type." In the Pavlofsky regiment of Foot
Guards the men were till very recently only selected
who had turned-up noses, and the men still retain
the quaint old sugar-loaf caps. Altogether, this
magazine presents much to attract readers belonging
to the Navy, Army, and Volunteers.
WHAT may be regarded as the first of a projected
series of reproductions of prints and drawings in the
University Galleries at Oxford is announced for
immediate publication by the Clarendon Press,
This is ' The Master E. S. and the Ars Moriendi, a
Chapter in the History of Engraving during the
Fifteenth Century,' by Lionel Cust, Director of the
National Portrait Gallery. It will be illustrated
with forty-six collotype facsimiles.
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