The November parts of the magazines issued by Messrs. Cassell and Ca., Ld., are.to hand, with all their familiar excelence, and the impress of prosperity as the reward of popularity. The Family Maqasine closes a volume, and for the new one we ate promised an exciting story of Klondyke, by Mr. Headon Hill; a series of short stories by {Mr. Max Pemberton; a serial by Mr. Barry Pain, and a variety of articles by writers of established repute, Noticing first the articles in the current number, "A Practising Barrister" contributes a chatty and informing parer upon the Temple—the centre of law and legal traditions—illustrated with a number of photographs of prominent lawyers. Incidentally, the writer points out the blunders which the artist perpetrated when he painted a picture that attracted a good deal of attention in the Academy and which was recently issued in a summer number. He points out that consultations are not as a rule conducted in wig and gown; that the Q.0. (we sup pose the gentleman in the chair is intended for a Q.C.) is not generally a very juvenile member of the bar; that those people attend a consultation for business purposes, and not with th object of gazing sentimentally at their client—young and beautiful though she may' be; nor, if they have landed her in a mess, will they give themselves away by looking at her in a well-you-a: devil-of-a-fix' sort of state." There isa very readable account of Mr. Dendy Sadler, the painter of many popular fishing pictures; Mr. John Foster Fraser, one of the three round-the-world cyclists, relates experiences cycling over the Caucasus Mountains and there is a very interesting sketch of the career of the author of The Christian. Two extracts from it may be ventured upon At the age of seventeen Mr. Hall Came was the teacher of a school on Manghold Head—a wild, desolate spot a mile or so from Ramsey, where he was literally "passing rich on £10 year." His pupils were the sons and daughters of peasant farmers scattered about the neighbourhood, some of them being almost as old as their teacher. The young schoolmaster of Manghold Head, however, had a reputation all round the countryside for shrewdness and scholarship. His information and advice would constantly be asked by old farmers and their wives—about the making of a will, the payment of a debt, and similar other troubles to) Poor, unlettered people. Every farm or cottage for fulles around was "open house"
him, and it was largely at that time that Mr. Came gained his wonderfully intimate knowledge of the life and character of the common people in Manxland. All over the island the novelist is exceedingly popular, but among the Manghold people the foehn, for him is one of personal affection, The el boys and girls of the school are never tired of telling how he taught them tored and write. A short time ago they got up a recital from Shakespeare in his honour.
Mr. Hall Came is not o native of the island 8 circumstance which occasions him, fancy, some- amount of sentimental regret. Both his parents were Manx to the backbone and it was in the nature of an accident that their first-born saw the light in.a Lancashire town. Their home at the time was & small farm near Balla in the north-west corner of the island, the freehold of which had passed for several generations from father to on. At this farmhouse Mr. Hall Came's childhood was spent, with the exception of short periods when he was' staying with relatives at Liverpool, or other places la England. Two or three years ago, when his fame had gone forth to the four quarters of the globe, Mr. Hall Came returned to the Isle of Man to make it again his home. For some time he resided at Greeba Castle, a fine edifice almost in the centro of the island, which, with ite ivy-covered stone walls, might have belonged to medieval times. AS a matter of century, and has the comfort of modernity as fact, it was built in the early years of this well as the beauty of antiquity. Mr. and Mrs. Came soon grew discontented with the autlo, and began to plan considerable aterations.' They lived for a time at Peel, in one of the short series of marine villas'of the of the castle tore in accordance wide Si, conventional type, pending the enlargemer Came's sense of the picturesque.
The Saturday Journal began a new volume with the November part. Besides some excellent fiction, including the commencement of anew serial by Sir. Frank Barrett. there are numerous chatty articles on popular subjects, notes on well-known eoplr, ete. In the course of an interview it William Flower gave some interesting, particulars of the work connected with the fine Natural History Museum at South Kensington, which he directs. began the interviewer natural history suppose by this time, Sir Willian," objects are as unoriginal to you asa human being is to his fellow-men "That is quite a false impression," Sir William replied emphatically, "Why, the living things with which we are acquainted are very small in proportion to those which exist. Take birds, for example. A collection never comes in but what it is found to contain numbers that have never been seen before. It will, no doubt, surprise you to learn that every year thousands of new mens are added to the Museum, "In the matter of beetles, again. Say a man goes out. to Africa, and sends home a collection of from four to five hundred, it is quite likely that half of that quantity may be new discoveries. W ways meting with something new. During the last year for which I have figures there were no fower than 48,600 additions to the Museum. These included 27,463 now insects, 10,561 birds, 1,006 animale, and 1,448 reptiles."
Now tell me about your collection, Sir William. How do you enrich it!"
"Well, a great many things we buy, and, of course, a large number are presented. We spend about £3,000 on purchases every year, and £3,000 on the preparation, stuffing, and mounting of exhibits. Sometimes members of our staff go abroad and collect, but in most cases collectors go out on their own account, and on the understanding that we are to have the first pick of whatever they send home. We have sometimes paid £2,000 for 8 collection of fossils or insects, and a few fears ago we bought a collection of beetles for £2,500, but it was an extraordinarily fine one.
"Not a day passes but large boxes of specimens are brought to the Museum. For every present that comes in we send a special letter of thanks, and, on an average we dispatch every year something like, 1,500 acknowledgments. Of course, these presents frequently include several hundred; cimens, each of which has to be examined.
have quite 50,000 eggs in the Museum, and one collection alone comprises 28,000 Indian birds' eggs, The first paper in the Quiver is by Dr.
orde, giving a vivid account of his great work for the rescue of waifs and strays. During their thirty-one years' of existence the institutions under him have rescued from the slums and perils of desstitution 32,402 waif children who have been trained, educated, and placed out in life, or are now in the homes still under training.
present nearly 5,000 are actua'ly.in re-idence, for the most part children. who would otherwise be absolutely homeless. Within the past twenty-five years 9,450 trained boys and girls have been placed out in situations in the colonies, and reports from the Government of Canada show that the failures among these emigrants are less than 2 per cent. 'A Missionary," contributes a short paper on The Gods of China," illustrated from native prints ani photographs; there is a poem by Sir Lewis Morris, and a variety of articles on more or less religious subjects, as well as some clever fiction.
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