12 OCTOBER 1895, page 30

Books.

THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN.* Mn. H. C. THOMSON is careful to explain in the course of his preface that his book is not intended to add any argument to the vexed political and......

Poetry.

A BALLAD OF OLD JAPAN. THE lordship over the Hinin (i.e., "not-men," the outcast beggar population of Yedo) was given three centuries ago by the great Shogun Iyeyasu to a......

"my Japanese Wife."

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—My attention has been drawn to an able and apprecia- tive review of my new novel, " My Japanese Wife," in the Spectator of October......