The miscellaneous articles in the March number of the Gentleman's
Magazine are considerably above even the high average of style and of variety generally sustained in it. It is a far cry from Mr. C. Parkinson's "Adders or Vipers" to Mr. Owen Ross's "A Cure for London Fogs "—which cure is the creation of "such upward currents of ventilation as would be produced by a number of air-propellers or ventilating-fans, placed in succession along certain routes." It is an equally far cry from a paper by Mr. Edmund B. V. Christian on "'The Advertiser's Shakespeare'" —that there should be such a possibility is surely a sinister sign of the times—to Mr. Thomas H. B. Graham's admirable his-
torical description of "The Great Forest of Sussex." A Disturber in Carglen Church" is a fairly good piece of Scotch description—description of character, no less than of scenery— of the kind that Mr. J. IL Barrie has made us familiar with. Mr, Gordon is true to nature and to Scotland, but this story is some- what too involved, and, although very interesting and (at the close) very amusing, drags almost fatally. "The Master of the 'Chryso- lite'" is a strong but unpleasant story of a dying act of self- sacrifice on the part of a sea-captain who, like his employers, is a pirate,—though of the modern type.
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