7 MAY 1892, Page 27

There is nothing that is specially notable in the May

number of Belgravia. Mr. B. S. Knollys contributes a sketch of Tallien, whom There is nothing that is specially notable in the May number of Belgravia. Mr. B. S. Knollys contributes a sketch of Tallien, whom he describes as "a lesser Lucifer of the Great French Revolution."

But he bas no fresh biographical information to offer, and his style is too pronouncedly, and almost bombastically, anti-Revolu- tionist. There is a good deal of almost Irish humour in "A Maori Tangi," which is an account of a New Zealand wake," devised to prevent the arrest of a man " wanted " for murder.