10 OCTOBER 1896, page 8

In The National Gallery. By Cosmo Monkhouse. (a. D. Innes.)

—It is satisfactory to be told by so competent an authority ac Mr. Monkhouse that there is no collection so well adapted as is our own National Gallery for the purpose of......

In Antarctic Waters.*

THE purpose of this expedition "was to ascertain whether right whales exist in paying numbers in the Great Bay as stated by Sir James Ross." The adventure proved unsuccess- ful,......

Current Literature.

Fields of Fair Renown. By Joseph Hocking. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—In one sense this is the most ambitious, in another it is the least successful, of its author's works. He has......