seizure of Evelyn by the Welsh, a powerful picture; "We are betrayed!" the note of alarm struck by the priest to Lady Évelyn; the "Arrival of Damian " to the rescue; "Sir Hugo and the Prelate"; and a somewhat grim design, "It is Wenlock's Head." The opening design in The Talisman,' meanwhile, is the unhorsing by the hound of Conrade of Montserrat. The remaining designs, consisting of the fight of Kenneth of Scotland with the Saracen, "Richard and the Physician," ""Kenneth and Edith," and "Conrade Wounded," are all by J. Le Blant. The volumes are equal in all respects to their predecessors. Mr. Nimmo's task is rapidly approaching completion.

HISTORY and European writers "have been, until lately, most unjust to the Byzantine empire, whether in its Roman, its Greek, or in its Ottoman form." So says Mr. Frederic Harrison in the Fortnightly Review, to which he contributes a glowing description of Constantinople, the most enduring seat of empire. Not yet, even, has our injustice been remedied. It is, however, in a fair way of being so, since there are few subjects more attractive to the modern historian. One is interested to find that not even under Ottoman rulers has the empire been, except at intervals, the abyss of corruption, servility, and vice that Western prejudice has too long imagined. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw continues the polemic against Mr. W. H. Mallock, and, whether convincing or not, is brilliantly amusing. Mr. Basil Field supplies an admirable paper on Fly Fishing,' and Mr. W. H. Hudson writes eloquently on The Serpent's Strangeness.' A feature in the Review is the appearance of two short poems signed Paul Verlaine. Concerning these enough is said in calling them characteristic.-In times immediately succeeding a rearrangement of ministry it is not strange to find the lion's share of the Nineteenth Century taken up by politics. A very considerable share is, indeed, assigned to the House of Lords. A very serious article on Indian subjects, with which, however, we cannot deal, is sent by the Rajah of Bhinga. A Neglected Sense,' by Mr. Edward Dillon, deals with the sense of smell, with the ultimate extinction of which we seem to be possibly menaced. It is curious to hear of a Japanese game of perfumers. It is only to be regretted that the writer is in possession of so little information concerning it. Continuing his interesting article on the advisers of the Queen, Mr. Reginald Brett deals with her "Permanent Minister," by which title he, of course, indicates the Prince Consort, The Countess Cowper deals with the 'Realism of Today,' and Mr. H. Schütz Wilson has a paper of great interest to students of Goethe on Frau Aja.'-Mr. Archer's translation of Gerhart Hauptmann's' Hannele : a Dream-Poem' is concluded in the New Review. It is very touching and beautiful, and free from the squalor with which we rebuked, perhaps unjustly, the earlier portion. The Confession of Crime' on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Charrington is rather an explanation of the causes of failure. On one or two subjects there is some outspokenness, and one journal in especial gets a wigging for "distilling the quintessence of bourgeois cant." Mr. Edmund Gosse supplies an original, if somewhat perturbing, Note on Walt Whitman.' The Illustrated Love-Epic' of Thackeray is concluded. Mr. W. W. Yates's Recollections of the Bronte Family' include some interesting drawings in sepia.-An excellent portrait of Matthew Arnold serves as frontispiece to the Century. Following this comes From the Old World to the New, told in Pictures.' It presents a series of views of the British peasant in servitude and despair, and his enfranchisement and fortune when he reaches America. Seductive and, it is to be hoped, trustworthy are the designs. Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich contributes a delightful sonnet to Miss Terry as Portia. Lincoln's

Literary Experiment' is very interesting. 'Wild Flowers of English Speech in America' is attractive to the folklorist, and A Summer Month in a Welsh Village' to the lover of British scenery. Driven out of Tibet' supplies pictures of the Tibetans, to all appearance the jolliest and most good-natured of beings. Millet's Life at Barbazon,' described by his brother, reproduces two lovely designs.-'The Farmer in the South,' in Scribner's, depicts some characteristic types of Southern America, white and "coloured." Life under Water describes the experience and observations of a diver. It is edifying as well as amusing to know that sharks, which abound, are terrified at the quaint, uncanny, helmeted explorers. French Caricature of To-day'' has some exquisitely humorous designs by Caran d'Ache, Willette, A Winter Journey up the and other known_artists. Coast of Norway' shows a life less bleak in appearance than we expected.-In Temple Bar Lord Chief Baron Abinger and the Bar' is one of the gossiping articles which are a delight of readers of this magazine. An appreciative paper on Théodore de Banville follows. Canal Voyage on a French River' describes some diffi'A culties on the river Dronne.- Jupiter and its System' is well described in the Gentleman's, in which also there is a good account of 'Old Westminster,' and a stimulating description of A Greek Feast.-Mrs. Ritchie continues, in Macmillan's, her delightful Chapters from some Unwritten Memoirs. A vivid picture of rough-riding in man's, Indian Saurians. A very grim description of Australia is presented.-Mr. Buckland depicte, in Longthe manner in which the alligator uses his tail is given, not without some expression of doubt. Mr. Beesly has some combats of saurians and tigers are mentioned, a paper on Mortmain.'-'Lodgings in Thule' and Pagans at Play' repay attention in the Cornhill.

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