10 MARCH 1894, Page 26

The new number of The Gentleman's Magazine is interesting rather

than notable, and perhaps among the subjects treated there is just a superfluity of well-worn topics. Yet Mr. Ropes' book, "The Campaign of Waterloo," supplies an adequate excuse for retelling an old story in a fresh and even original manner,

and "wonders from the familinr start," in "Curiosities of Diamonds." Mr. E. 0. Walker contributes a sensible, and in no way extravagant, article on the latest annexation to the British Empire, the Chin-Lushai country, which is now in process of pacification. Mr. Walker is more hopeful of the forest-produce of this territory than of anything else. Under the title of "

Northumbrian Valley," Mr. A. H. Tapp gives a really fascinating account of the history, romance, poetry, and folk-lore of Coquet- dale. Among the other contents of The Gentleman's Magazine may be noted "Lord Beaconsfield as a Phrase-maker," by Mr. Alfred F. Robbins ; and a rather rambling, yet enthusiastic, article on " Foreglows and Afterglows," by Dr. J. E. McPherson. By the way, is not the landscape-painter to whom Dr. McPherson alludes in his last page "Wailer," not "Walter," Paton ?