12 MAY 1888, Page 23

The editor of the Westminster Review has shown in recent

numbers a commendable tendency to admit articles on out-of-the-way subjects ; and so in the May number we have papers on "The Natives of the Solomon Islands," "Tramps, Mediteval and Modern," and "Habitual Drunkenness," by "An Habitual Drunkard," who, although he has not the power of De Quincey, and does not come to any very remarkable conclusions, knows what he writes about. The controversial portion of this Review seems scarcely so good as it was.