We have received from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh, Ld., a very handy little hook Gf maps in stiff paper cover, Macmillen's Atlas for China, Japan, cud the Straits Settlements. By o.G. Bartholomew, P..6.8. Published by Macmillan & Ca., La, and costing only $1, Tt contains 24 ex: cellent and very clearly reater number of then devot but including the British Empire, 'Asia' and its southern countries, Europe, 'Africa, America, and Australasia. Tu addition' to two double-page maps of China, there ate reparate physical xvd politico maps of China and Japan, and of Asia generally, und political maps of Europe Snd of Africa, they are brought well Gown to date, for the former South African Republics are duly included in the JSritish possessions 5 but Mauchutisis still coloured as Chinese.
Every lover of the sea must enjoy Avlightful book published by Mr. Edward Aynold, Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft ald round the World, by R.'T. Pritchett, Marine Painter to ths Royal Thames Yacht Club. There are more than fifty of these sketches all most Denutifully and accurately drawn, from the royal yacht Victoria and Albert toa Malay proa in the antipodes. As is seen in his picture of the Vietorin und Albert, Mr. Pritchett has the art of putting life into hhis vessels; they are moving through the water, they ure not merely parted ships upon a painted ocean, Vanisning types ate here too, the China clipper with her painted ports and her stunsails wow and Aloft the collier brig; the Norwegian jaeyt, faithful reproduction of the Viking ships the Danish sloop, a clumsy-looking tub, very like the billy-buys of the east coast of England, and many others. Mr. Pritehett's Jong voyages round the world in the Sunbeam and the Wanderer have given him opportunities of whicl ho has made wood use.. The book is handsomely bound in blue and white cloth gilt, and published at 10/6 net.
rom tha store of Kelly & Walsh, Ld., comes & capital book of stories by 'A. Quiller-Couch, Old Fires and Protitable Ghosts." They are capital stories, highly imaginative and very artistically tuid, to be recommended to the highs and well-conditioned thin to the morbid and dissatisfied, but throughout written with a great deal of power as well as art, and essentially interesting.
iirary (Kelly and Walsh, L.,) is entitle A recent volume in Longman's Colonial Tang at Wontar," by. Arche Marehmont.. This is one of the Prisoner of Zenda" class, and is a very yood specimen of the class, The scene is bud in Bulgaria ab the time when Prince Alexander was trying to hold his own against the Russian conspiracy to which he ultimately fen a victim, Mr. Marchmout's powers of invention are inexhaustible and there i a dull moment in the story. His princess is a perfect angel and his villains are us perfect in their villainy, while the gallant young English hero is all that a hero of romance should be, No one who begins the book will lay it down until he has finished it and been comforted by finding the hero and heroine united at lose after all the changes and chances through which Mr. Marchmont hurries thea. Thers are eight adequate illus rations by D. Murray Smith, Tt was a happy thought to make Mr. 0, Arnold-Forster, m.r., the Seoretary to the Admiralty, for no one has done more than he has to ry and get our army and navy brought up tu the level of strength ney which they ought to main are to hold one position in the is little book of 102 pages, Phe War Office, the Army, and the Empire (Cassell & Ca., La.), he criticises, but not more severely than circumstances demand,
gets on with Lord Lansdowne after his exposure of that Minister's incompetence—sn incompetence as_a reward for which he has been made Foreign Secretary—is not easy _t" understand. In the chapter heated "Who is Responsible?" Mr. Arnold-Forster examines and condemns the system which Lord Wolesley_ has recently so strongly condemned and Lord Lansdowne defended, in the House of Lords, a system by which no one can be made responsible for any mismanagement of our army. The following quotation will at least show that the removal of Lord effected a moment too soon
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