Miss Charlotte Cameron did not' waste her "Two Years in Southern! Seas" (Union 2is.), since she made can observant study of many of the most interesting archipelagoes, and obtained fresh notes upon even the most hockeyed subjects, while her; photographs are invariably helpful} and well judged. Among other; things, she gives a welcome account of the leper settlement at Molokai And of those who are continuing, the work of Father Damien. There appear to be solid hopes that al decisive cure for leprosy-has beer discovered. Among Miss Cameron's' lighter passages is the story of a "King" of the Marshall Islands who is also the local pilot, and boarded passing steamer, which rough again. He was carried on to San weather prevented from landing him!
Francisco, and it was nearly a year before he' could obtain the needful shipping facilities for re-assuming his throne, Anyone who is at all interested by the recent remarkable discoveries in Upper Egypt will do well to consult the February number of "Discovery,'' which has lately been described in a leading article of the "Manchester Guardian" as 'a sort of war correspondent of peacetime, which fetches to us laymen at home the exciting news from the various fronts where science is gaining hhardfought ground." This special Egyptian Discovery' number contains articles on "The Life of Tutankhaman," by Professor T. E: Poet, a leading authority on the strange city of the sun-cult at Tell-el-'Amarna, where Tutankhamen spent the early yeats of his reign; and on "The Robbery of the Royal Tombs at Thebes in the XXth and XXIst Dynasties," by Dr. Black-man, whose account enables the veadér to understand the uniqueness of the excavated treasures, while the Editorial Notes describe the aesthetic value of the find. Professor Okey contributes a' paper on a romantic episode in Garibaldi's life hitherto unknown in England and Professor Fleure describes an exciting new study in Anthroapology. Articles of scientific and classical interest complete a very varied issue.
Mary Queen of Scots has been mire written about than almost any woman of history, but the interest in her seems endless. She is the subject of a new volume, the thirtieth.in number, which will shortly appear in Hodge's Notable Trials. It deals with trials modern as well as long ago, for those of Neill} Cream, the poisoner, of Dougal of the Moat Farm, and of the Ilford murderers will make other books,
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