14 FEBRUARY 1903, page 21

La Grande Mademoiselle.*

MADEMOISELLE DE MONTPENSIER, daughter of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and granddaughter of Henri IV., was called "La Grande," Saint-Simon tells us, to distinguish her from the......

Mr. Rider Haggard's " Rural England."* -any One Who Has

read Mr. Rider Haggard's Farmer's Year knows that in this relation of the author's two years' itinerary through rural England is to be found considerable personal knowledge of......