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may be a good After ho had shot his that this interesting book is not provided with an index. ibex, with its 44-inch hoad, he tells us: c. I. B. Kadera came to my tent and cheerfully informed me that he had promised Buddha, in the event of my

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complete success, a sacrifice of two fat sheep. After a few moments of embarrassing silence following my assent, I was further informed, still cheerfully, though perhaps a trifle less confidently, that the promise had been made in my behalf. I had wondered who was to pay for them! So the sacrificial fire was built, the sheep killed, and far into the night the shikaris and coolies feasted in the moonlight, squatting in a circle about my tent. MKRTON. OOLjOBTOST. P.y Mr". Humphry Reference has already been made to the LVPY l'imo, Ward. Front ispi«-ee by Alfred Sterner, frontispiece. pp. 3CI. Doubleday. Page .& Co. There axe several other good "Sport illustrations in this readable narrative of rOBTDNK Ev J. C. Snaith. 12mo, pp. 353. Moflat, Yard & Co. and Travel in the Far East." 1

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genuine comedy. The tale may be a littla overkng at first in proportion to the number of its adventures, but Mr. Snaith manages to keep us as much interested in his characters in between as he is himself. A delightful book, whose manner pleases as much as its content.

In his new study of modern Poland Rienkicwicz does not concern himself so exclusively with the Polish— the Slav—soul as he did in The title of the book, "Without Dogma." "Whirlpools," has a double meaning. While it refers, on the one hand, to the Polish temperament, which plays a large part in the story, of course, itroints with even greater force to modBy th« ern economic and social conditions in Poland, to

V.IiIRU'OOLS: A Novel of Modern Poland. Translated H<--:ir>k Si^nkiewicz. from I'olish by Max A. Drezma.l. 12mo. pp. 330. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.

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the noble and to socialistic propaganda, which, Mrs. Ward has discovered Canada, and writes attempting to carry out its theories regardless truly of it and its commonwealth builders with Charles X and the of consequences, but too often succeeds only in Strangely enougn, she rousing the feminine enthusiasm. activities of Russian police and CosJuly. does not see a continuation there of the stu- sack. The adventures of the characters are set essay* on Sterne, other biograEngland, Paris, June 4. pendous virilityof nineteenth century *iyt in a larger plot of conspiracy and riot in the Shandeans. there « il!always be The collection of "Memoires and Souvenirs" a younger growth of a wider, more liberal country districts and in Warsaw. A carious, made by M. Frantz Funek-Brentano, bearing Anglo-Saxondom, but a contrast, not at aJI constantly growing influence in European life, upon the period of the Bourbon Restoration and favorable to the men of the mother country. of which Sienkiewicz makes use here is the republished by A. Fayard, Is enriched by "La Mrs. Ward has never grasped the wider historic turned emigrant of the lower clasf, who inRevolution do Juillet." written by M. Raymond meaning of the England of the Victorian era. variably acquires a liberal polish abroad even a Sportsman in L.ecuyer. This is perhaps the most trustworthy The proud significant p of the great achieve- when he fails to gather moss. There are many r%t monograph on the stirring days of July, IS3O, ment of a privilepn: -te of governing ama- discussions iR in the book of the condition of East. •< yond her vision; she Poland and her future, hardly that has yet appeared. It is conclusively shown teurs has proved to 1 less pessimistic by the evidence brought together by M. L£cuyer has ntver been able to ri.se above her adulation than those of "Without Dogma," but presented ..~> TF.AVKL INT THE FAR FAST. with a greater measure of realistic detachment. With 6* illustrations from • pr J. fey i!-e author. Svo, pp. xW, 264. Mi«to Company. NOTES. agreeable travelling eompanG C w is an raze? of this handsome volume. He Mr. Charles Marriott has hit upon a ter?e I\u25a0 Tj^e himself, his adventures or his ot> enough title for his new novel. He calls it, simIJobs1 obligation ply, "Now." seriously: he Beds no Jobs too dor-s rr.ind with improving informarra 1 Francois Coppee i.s the latest of writers to bo o" is an went for a las* vacation— he honored by a statue in Pari?. His effigy in I: He diplomat nt present attached to our the bronze has been fashioned for erection in him, kr has come to be Place Saint Francois Xavier. It represents in Eer!in-he had what cigarette fingers. time," and, with a between his aD^, inevitably as a "bully I Ls down in .-. armchair and tells Thp Macmillians will shortly publish a book interrfted him most, which is which not students of archeology alone but all r " iWfSI ke«P you entertained. Sport was thoughtful sportsman should find of interest. a surfeit of shooting It is a study by Mr. Norman E. Gardiner, of f Soli kut, aft.r Tho "Greek Athletic Sports and Festivals." tracking in many books, he and SjfStittix* volume is divided into two parts, the first beit, much of even history too ing occupied with a of athletic festivals does not make in Greece from the earliest time-s to the year cannot help glowing over some of his 303 A. D.. the second comprising chapters on specific sports. The book is to contain about the jungles of the Malay peatwo hundred illustrations. course; he refever, of caught where he l?Frin?:s of N. w Zealand, tJ 'c The literary cafe, for generations characterU - Bedatexter.siv<-!y in Northern India, went istic of Paris, is still an institution, but it is it once was. not quite so familiar to-day as type £md Baltistan. and, having is nowperhaps because your brilliant sh.irpu, ' markhor and more prosperous and therefore less dependent ibex. fclack UaT dwelling Bohemia, A Paris tiger China. of upon the conveniences ur- with the cave correspondent of "The London Morning Post," :\u25a0;\u25a0 S£Vg: alluding to one of the last of these pleasant *-c Jungle Bains, flies and lounging places, speaks thus of its recent losses: *wj! *>*&nrr fill°f me that tiger shooting in Death has levied heavy toll of late on the disadvantages and had ***\Sqomrinced hatjiti:es. A year or so ago Catulle Mendes might fac' Its distinct '\u25K a0 \'t. certainly not about the circulation of During the material. The Englishman whom she chooses People buy my now work, and T-rt-f«-reiice to the slower other sum of 30,000 francs. IZ'ii which we'- k ina'.Mi.'intr • the trip by the old I^'.*!•-" £'"a itean!* de Berry to contrast with the Canadian in 'Lady Mer- my earlier books falls off at ace." Duchesse family royal of the flight rather de?c!ate banks of the the raf i»-;wt(n ti.v to our mind*, much bag that contained a few ton, Colonist." is not a typical representative of \u25a0'J^r^iv r.r-T «?.4tn strt-et." or "B road." It bits." Mine, de Damas, do you tain condescension toward colonials which still •"tsses qti* ci.!'\u25a0'.'•' with the glare of its \izi- "How much money. t&ofA,custy, white ex; arse. ever industrious Mr. E. V. Ln^as wHI The think we have been able to collect by uniting rules strong in England, but one- would like to - mably have a volume or two of essays to family?"' "Why. Isup- have pome- representative Canadian's opinion Jtr. Grew grows serioas when he speaks of all the parses of the fore when the holiday season cornea around. the "No, c, e^r that Agnes in- of it—Miss swarming cities pose several hundred thousand francs!" Laut's. for instani Meanwhile, it is announced that he is ut work \u25a0y s;-jalcr ar.d poverty of the deed! Allthat we can scrape together does not of the author of 'The Imperialist," the best apon a story for children, to which he haa 'lidia, tst lat-:r en. when .-.-.. Himalayas, picture of Canadian life and conditions yet writ- gfven the name of "Slow Coach." •ifcfcnns us th^t "Rale 1of the Indian cook amount to 40,000 francs!" •.--.- cook because '.e-n—the opinion of Mrs. Everard Cotc3. ifiMys, 'Do net M. Ifaxime Vuillaume, one of the former leadThe 450th anniversary of the University ct dishonest, they are and ho all on the of thi3 vis dishonest: Versatility is not tin least of the literary Bale will be celebrated ers of the Paris Commune- in 1871, has put toThe committee of organization h;is deHe passes from month.' gether his diary, his souvenirs and his remi- merits of Mr. J. C. Snaith. orphans cided to collect a fund for widows and entertaining such an ultra-modern, probing chronicle of of university professors. The absence ot such niscences and written a thoroughly May. days and conditions as "Broke April changing of English so.ial account of the terrible a fund has prevented some eminent men from at pubaccepting a chair liaie. where the number of of Covenden" to a mediaeval romance like Itis entitled "Mes Cahiers Rouges," and is students is not large enough to assure the proa a:;d competence tells in case that The author with an by lished OllendorfL "Fortune" fessor an honorarium sufficient both to support straightforward, concise way exactly what he well serve to keep alive an.l strength* n the In- his family and to provide {•>? them in case of saw. His power of description is remarkable. terest in his work of those who have followed his death. The plan is, therefore, no* only thorough knowledge of the physiognomy country from the h'r.st. charitable, but a!;;o for the best interests of iho fortunes in his own this has He university. of Paris, and every historic building, street and His new Look contains four striking characters. by English the tourist Interesting gigantic to scldier cafe is made more The tirst of them is a Araeri readers will be interested in a to th<-> life and times of John the disclosure of some new and startling epi- of fortune, a swaggering rogue with a tre- bo< k "••': s, V.iK a which is now in course of pr ;>a\u25a0odes that took place near it. All lovers of mendous capa< ity for food and drink -md laugh- ration by Mr. Lewis Melville. A mass of unRouges." gift a saving Cahiers with a senseof humor and for ter, Paris should read Ties published material i- to be -\u25a0\u25a0! Unrein, .:::•'. a bold ilotting as jrreat as his c/mrnsre. The sec- great part its pages will !»\u25a0 given over to No French officer has had wider or more ond is a Spanish noble youth, in^'er.uous and Wilki s"s r< of lotion with the moving spirits of varied experience in campaigning with native the soul of henor, who starts out :>> seek a the Fr< ..\u25a0 h l: volution. troops In Africa than Lieutenant Colonel Baracareer with his father's sword and horse and a amusing book, and little tier, whose Instructive Another volume which v.m make some appeal The third is a French adpieces. gold few by Faypublished A. to In this country is a compilation of "A Travers l'Afrique," is tr-rma^rant, U)..readers Spanish the a venturer, and fourth thorough ol Mrs. Craigie (John Oliver a letters has made Baratier Colonel ard. command <>f her doddering father's Hobbes). These epistles deal chiefly with literStudy of the inhabitants of the regions of the who tiikes to King of Spain. .Mr. Fnaith ary topi s and many of them axe addressed He castle and defies the distinguished writers. The book will be pubNiger, the Soudan and the Eahr-el-Ghazal. I-- Sage, Rabelais and Cervantes and has read physically, lished in the autumn. has analyzed the Central Africans and, no doubt, Maurice Hewlett, to good purmentally and morally. He presents the dusky pray, picares';u
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