SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
re [Under [Under Ildsm heeding vs notice ] nrch Paolo of ow weak as hem net been Random. Recollections. By R. Caton Woodville. (E. Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—This high-spirited book introduce, us to the same kind of life as Mr. Kipling painted for a background to The Light that Failed. The London scenes, though curious enough in their way, do not appeal to us so strongly as the pictures of adventure in sport and war. Mr. Caton Woodville has done a great deal of campaigning in the pursuit of the picturesque, and his reminiscences make an amusing patch- work. Perhaps the beet chapter of all is that which describes his experiences at Dusseldorf, whither he went to study painting in 1876. One of his stories recalls the Zebern incident. At supper in a restaurant a drunken subaltern poured a glass of champagne over a Jewish banker's head, saying: "That is how I christen a Jew." The banker returned the compliment, saying : "And that is how I christen a Lieutenant." The officer at once drew his sword and ran it through the banker, who died on the spot. The aggressor was tried by Court-Martial, but got off with a year in a fortress on account of the insult to his cloth.
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