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by Signer Giaeomo Boni. Under the title 'A
Dutch Fairy Tale,' Miss Margaret Robinson deals
with ' De Kleine Johannes ' of Frederik van Eeden.
Scribner's opens with ' The Charm of Paris,' by
Ida M. Tarbell, a sustained eulogy by an American
of a city which to some of us very poorly replaces
the Paris of a couple of generations ago. What she
calls, with some gush, " the making-over of Paris "
is what some of us are disposed to regard as " the
marring of Paris." At any rate, the illustrations of
modern life in a city which has lost some of its
gaiety as well as its beauty are effective. Mr. Seton-
Thompson contributes a vivacious account of ' The
Kangaroo-Rat.' Part iv. of 'Oliver Cromwell'
remains the most valuable feature of the magazine,
and is occupied with the Irish and Scotch wars.
Many of the illustrations are spirited. There is a
sensible and readable paper on Ruskin, and an
account of Magersfontein, illustrated by excellent
photographs. The frontispiece to the Pall Mall con-
sists of a coloured drawing, pretty and quaint, by
Mr. Granville Fell, of Spring, whose tardy approach
we are all willing to greet. Among capitals of
Greater Britain, Kingston, Jamaica, is depicted,
which for nearly two hundred and fifty years, ever
since its capture by Penn and Venables, has been
in English possession. Mr. William Thorp, the
author, says that Cromwell hanged both for the
deed. This is a strange mistake, since both out-
lived Cromwell and died natural deaths. That he
imprisoned them is true, though probably not for
the reason suggested. Most surely he did not hang
them. The views of Kingston are excellent.
Among many reasons ' Why Americans live Abroad,'
we are disposed to attach most importance to the
desire to escape the scourge of " personal jour-
nalism." We are not wholly surprised to hear that
of adult Americans away in Europe four-fifths are
women. 'Arts and Crafts in the Sixteenth Cen-
tury' reproduces from Stradanus's ' Nova Reperta'
some very quaint pictures of industrial occupations.
An anticipatory article concerning 'The Paris Exhi-
bition of 1900' also appears. Much attention has
been attracted to Mr. Thomas Hardy's ' The Souls of
the Slain ' in the Cornhill. Imagination and vigour
this possesses, but it is not conspicuous as poetry.
Lady Broome continues her agreeable ' Colonial
Memories,' and Sir John Robinson his ' South
African Reminiscences.' Urbanus Sylvan continues
also his ' Conference on Books and Men.' While
yielding a tribute to poor Traill, whose premature
death was a calamity, he doubts whether his dia-
logues will survive ; says, indeed, boldly that they
will not. He quotes some specimens of modern
humour, which are far from impressing us favour-
ably. In 'Athletics and Health 'Mr. Beach
Thomas counsels the practice of gymnastics. An
essay ' On Fads,' by Lady Grove, proves, to
our thinking, the lady herself a bit of a
faddist. By calling his paper on R. D. Black-
more ' Mr. Blackmore ' Mr. Stuart J. Reid deceived
us into supposing it to be fiction. When a man of
Blackmore's distinction dies, surely one drops the
"Mr." We should no more dream of saying Mr.
Blackmore or Mr. Traill than Mr. Burns, Mr.
Shelley, or Mr. Keats. A pleasant picture of
Blackmore is afforded, and the delusion that he
made money by his gardening is dispelled. In
Temple Bar ' The Debt We Owe to France' is not
for any unexpected outburst of sympathy for us in
our troubles or pride in our recovery, but for the
Huguenot strain with which she has leavened our
blood. This is all right, but we owe her n
debts of the same sort, including the Norman i
many
inva-
sion. ^ 'Princess Lieven and her Friendships' and
'Eugenie de Guerin' are readable articles. In
'From the Persian' Mr. H. G. Keene gives us a
rendering of doubtful quatrains of Omar Khayyam,
of whom, with some courage, he ventures to speak
as "Umar Khayyam." The first part is given of
' A Mem Sahib in Plague-Stricken Bombay. Other
contents consistof fiction, most of it good. Vladimir
Galaktionovitch Korolenko, described in the Gentle-
man's as ' A Contemporary Russian Writer,' is
little known to the English public. He is an author
of Siberian tales, written when he was banished to
Yakoutsk, the coldestfgovernment of Siberia. Mr.
Robb Lawson gives an account of the ' Evolution
of the Drama,' too great a subject to be handled
in a single number. M. Prower writes on ' Samuel
Taylor Coleridge,' also a great subject, and Mr.
H. Schiitz Wilson on 'A Fantastic Dream.'
In Longman's a series to be called ' The
Women of the Salons ' begins prosperously
with Madame du Deffand, known to readers
of Walpole. Mr. Frank Ritchie writes briefly and
sensibly on 'Literary Dogma.' ' At the Sign of the
Ship ' deals touchingly with the death of Frederick
Tait of the Black Watch, and also bewails the
death of Traill. It contains some sensible criticisms
on ' Paolo and Francesca,' almost the first we have
read. 'Strange Craft on Many Waters' gives in
the English Illustrated capital pictures of vessels in
use among primitive peoples, from Fijian canoes
to Japanese junks. An interesting paper on Poland
has likenesses of Kosciusko and Spbieski with other
illustrations. The most interesting portion, apart
from the fiction, consists of a good and well-illus-
trated account by Mr. George Douglas of William
Cowper.
WE hear with profound regret of the death of the Rev. John Christopher Atkinson, since 1847 vicar of Danby, the author of 'Forty Years in a Moorland Parish,' ' A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect,' ' Sketches in Natural History,' ' Eggs and Nests of British Birds,' 'Memorials of Old Whitby,' ' The History of Cleveland,' and other books, pam- phlets, &c. He was a storehouse of information concerning Yorkshire antiquities, natural history, folk-speech, &c. Born in 1814 at Goldhanger, in Essex, he was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge. Later he was made an honorary D.C. L. of Durham. During recent years his contributions to our columns on account of his age were few. His name appears, hovyever, frequently in the Third and subsequent Series.
A. R. BAYL.EY (" Dedication by an Author to
Himself "). The passage from Mascagni which you
send is a translation of that with which the dis-
cussion opened.
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