Good Words for 1895 makes a most promising start with
a bright new cover, several original features, including reproductions of
works of art and "Bits about Books," and the first instalments of new stories by Mr. S. R. Crockett and Mr. W. Clark Russell. Mr. Crockett's "The Men of the Moss-Rags" is evidently to be on the lines not of "The Lilac Sunbonnet," but of "The Raiders,"
and will give pictures both of the gipsies and of the Covenanters of Galloway. It makes a better opening than even "The Raiders,"
for in this first instalment we have the description of a fight between a murderous gipsy and a strong horse, and the picture of a woman of vigorous Scotch character, whose heart is made desolate, but is not broken, by the loss of her husband in battle. Sir Robert Ball sends the first of a series of articles on Sir Isaac Newton, while Mr. William Sharp con- tributes an admirable travel-paper entitled "Through Northern Tunisia," and Sir Herbert Maxwell, one of his roundabout, half- historical, sketches under the title of "Shaving." The Marquis af Lorne draws attention, under the title "A Game we Might
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