Cussell's Magazine for September is complete budget of interesting matter and the illustrations are simply charming. One of the most striking and attractive sketches of the number is a talk with that intrepid traveller and hunter Mr. H. W. Seton-Harr, repeated with flowing facility by Raymond Blathwayt. For the Inst fifteen years Mr. Harr has been travelling through unexplored tracts after big game and his exploits, many of them being of the most risky and dangerous nature, have frequently found expression in the columns of the world's newspapers. He will'by students of prehistoric archaeology ever be remembered az the discoverer in East Africa of the only pa'wolithie settlement yet found, which it is claimed has all the physical features of the Mosaic Eden.
Joseph Hocking'sstirring Cornish romance reeanion is continued, and under the tithe of Couriers and their Work Mr. W. B. Robertson details a few of the innumerable precautions taken to ensure the safety of the Queen, when she goes travelling. The writer visited the famous Courier's Club in Davies Street and goes on to say One of my first encounters at the club was Mr. E. Dossé, the Queen's courier, or, to wive him his official title, Her Majesty's Director of Continental Travels." Mr. Dossé has occupied this position since 1889, and his first Imperial duty was to bring the Shah over here from Antwerp. In 1895 he had the Shahzada under his wing, and saw him as far on the way home as Suez. He also had the superinten of the railway arrangements daring the Czar's last visit to this country. It is Mr. Dossé's duty to find a suitable habitation for the Queen when she goes abroad. This, one can readily understand, is not always an easy task, and Mr. Dossé has spent as long as two months " house-hunting" for her Majesty and then been unsuccessful. Having found a desirable place, Mr. Dossé reports his find, describing its wccominodation, its altitude, its surroundings, and its other amenities. Photographic views of the house and ground are also submitted to her Majesty, who then signifies her approval or disapproval. The Queen,"
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