This excellent publication maintains the high standard of interest that it established at the ontect and a slight enlargement is promised for the January number. December's issue contains variety of interesting article, including ap account of an ascent in the Himalayas by Mrs, Bollock Workman, a recital by Captain Dodley Haskard on " Hoo Shooting in Somali "Of the a land; hess Beaten Track in Syria" by Mr. P. R. Salmon aod "The Magnetic South (a story of magnificent failure) by Mr. Eostace Reynolds-Ball, In lighter vein is an article entitled " Travellers' Tales" by Dr. Scott Keltie, while Book Editor relates some amas experiences and moralizes on a subject. Tourists, on learning that " large number of hotels have a secret method of marking luggage to indicate the generosity or the reverso of the owner in regard to tips, will do well to subject their baggage to a close seruting to see that chalk circles apon it contain no creeees in them.
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