excessively minute distance. A very interesting and instructive paper is that of Miss Octavia Hill on Natural Beauty as a National Asset,' in which the work of the society for securing for the public places of historic interest or natural beauty is described. The Countess of Jersey advocates schemes for securing happy evenings for children. In writing of the 'Victorian Woman' (are not all living women such ?), Mrs. Frederic Harrison is just to Trollope and unjust to Walter Scott. Mr. Adolphus Vane Tempest in 'Some Aspects of the Stage' shows that things in regard to that institution are not so roseate as is sometimes supposed. From Dawn to Dark on the High Zambesi' is an attractive piece of description undefiled by any record of slaughter such as disfigures much work of the class. An interesting paper by Mr. J. C. Tarver on 'The Fire of Rome and the Christians' opens out some startling views.The most interesting and readable article in The National is that of Prof. Churton Collins on • The Merstham Tunnel Mystery and its Lessons.' It is to a great extent a deserved arraignment of our pedantry in the matter of criminal investigation and a condemnation of portions of our detective service. We cannot refrain from wonderment on reading a passage such as: "I is notorious that the perpetrator of one of the most brutal murders which occurred some years ago is now at large simply because it was forbidden to present him in the slight disguise assumed by him at the time of his crime." Notorious as it was, this matter passed unobserved of us. Supposing it to be correct, we agree with the Professor in his estimate of the stupidity of our proceedings. Sir Gilbert Parker has a long article on 'Canada after Twenty Years,' in which he draws some encouraging conclusions.Chief interest in The Cornhill attends the brilliant article of Col. Picquart on the centenary of Austerlitz. This is written in French, and affords a fine study of Napoleon. Canon Beeching supplies instances of amusing mistakes in examination papers in English literature. The third and penultimate part of 'Reminiscences of a Diplomatist' is occupied with life in St. Petersburg in the period before the Crimean War. Mr. Frederick Boyle, a well-known orchid_collector, has a deeply interesting paper on 'The Fascination of Orchids.' No. VIII. of From a College Window' deals with egotism, and speaks, accurately enough, of Coventry Patmore as a "transcendent egotist." Such, indeed, he was. Capt. F. 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