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Tux WEEK 897 TOPICS OF THE DAY—

The Elections 900 The First Step 901 Mr. Goschen 902 The Conservatism of London 902 Batoum 903 English Commerce and English Education 904 The Indo-Colonis1 Exhibition 905 The Contrast between Buddhist and Christian Teaching 906 The Spites of Rulers 907 The Beasts and Birds of the Law 908

LETTERS TO THZ EDITOR—

Letters from Donegal" 910 The Masses and the Classes 910 Royal Soc;ety of Painters in

Water-Colours 910 "The Cruise of the • Baochante'" 911 Porrav-

Idylls of the Iliad.—XII 911

ART — Mr. F. Barnard's Character

Sketches from Dickens 911

BOOKS—.

The Heart of South America 912 Three Novels 913 Across Central Asia 914 Mr. Courtney's "Constructive Ethics" 915 Dr. Balfour's " Cyclopiedia of India" 917 Maimonides• "Guide to the Per- plexed" 918

A. Year with the Birds 920 CURRENT LITERATURE 920-939 PUBLICATIONS OF THE Wass 923 ADVERTISEMENTS 922-930-939 940 LITERARY SUPPLEXENr.

Tonrgu5neff's Last Stories ... 931 Mr. Giffen's Essays 232 The Cs.melot Classios.—Morte d'A rthur 933 Mr. Patmore's Poems 934 Emigrant Life in Kansas 935 Professor Rabbeno on Co-opera- tion in England 936 A Russian Novelist 937