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of difference. The lecture on ' French Poetsy of
To-day,' delivered in March last at the Taylonan
Institute by M. Emile Verhaeren is printed It
deals largely with the work of Verlame, Mallarme,
and Baudelaire, as indeed with that of Lamartme
and Victor Hugo. Mallarm6 is regarded as a sym-
bolist par excellence. Poems of this passionate and
sensuous writer, which offer extreme difficulty to
the average Englishman, are interpreted. The
entire article is thoughtful and suggestive. Mr.
H G. Wells in 'Anticipations' deals charac-
teristically with forthcoming means of locomotion.
-As a frontispiece the Pall Mall has a delightful
reproduction of Greuze's picture ' The Dairymaid.
Next in order comes a paper by the late Charles
Yriarte on Jean Frangois Millet, who is described
as 'The Great Peasant Painter.' This gives a
deeply interesting account of the struggles of a
man whom Fate, fond as she is of savage irony,
treated with exceptional cruelty. It supplies a
portrait, pictures of his birthplace and residences,
and photographs of many of his best-known paint-
ings ' The Black City,' by Sir W. B. Richmond,
conceived. 'Skipper,' a story of a horse, has
good coloured illustrations. Mr. Lang is at
his very best this month in 'At the Sign of
the Ship' in Longman's, and discourses most
entertainingly on a variety of subjects, chiefly
literary. The new book of Mr. Baildon concerning
Stevenson receives special attention. Mr. Thomas
Cooke-Trench has
Shorter's ' The Dean of Santiago ' is a good Southey-
like story, told in spirited verse. ' Joe Thorne s
Vi'let" ' is touching. The most important article in the Gentleman's is Mr. Karl Blind's account of
Sir Francis Barry's New Excavations of Brqchs.' Miss Georgiana Hill tells with spirit the striking story of ' The Queen of Denmark and Col. Keith.' Mr. Charles C. Osborne gives an account of Francis Osborne, a namesake, if not an ancestor, whom Judge Parry has recently edited. Mr. Ellard Gore describes ' Some Recent Advances in Stellar Astro- nomy.' Mr. Harold F. Hills deals with ' The Por- tuguese Claimant at the Court of Elizabeth. Many
sion. We heartily wish success to Sir William
in his crusade. Mr. Howard Hensman gives an
instructive account of 'The Uganda Railway.
off by a lion. Some
startling stories are told. Mr. Lecky's 'Queen
Victoria as a Moral Force' has attracted much
attention. Mr. Archer's 'Conversation with Mr.
Thomas Hardy' has abundant interest. Remi-
niscences of Verdi' and 'The Training of our
Officers' may also be commended to perusal.
Mr. A. E. Housman sends to the Gornhill a very
clever and amusing ' Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.'
Lady Broome, who is the possessor of a most are published,
attractive style, describes 'Interviews'; and Mr.
Alexander Innes Shand gives a readable account
of ' Monboddo and the Old Scottish Judges.' Mr.
W. J. Fletcher supplies a spirited account of the
Idler remain principally fiction. They include,
however, under the title 'A Dash for the North
Pole,' a highly stimulating account by Capt.
Willman of his sledge journey in Arctic regions.
' Hernande de Soto ' describes the heroic deeds and
adventures of the discoverer of the Mississippi. A
Dssiping and discursive paper entitled ' The
hilosophy of Idling' replaces ' The Idlers' Club.'
NEW editions have been issued by Messrs. Samp- son Low & Co. of Mr. W. T. Lynn's admirable works on ' Celestial Motions,' ' Remarkable Eclipses,' and ' Remarkable Comets,' the value of which is out of all proportion to the low price at which they
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the Great Indian Mutiny,' and deals with the siege I llcallon of Cawnpore. ' Australian Memories,' by Mr. F. G. Aflalo, inspires a warm desire in the reader to visit the spots_described. ' The Gift of the Mahatma,'
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by Mr. Horace Hutchinson, is a striking pii
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