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Art In Needlework. By Lewis F. Day And Mary Buckle.

(B. T. Batsford. 5s. net.)—An interesting as well as useful book. Mr Day, in his happy combination of the artistic with the technical, has well illustrated a point to which he......

Novels Of The Week.*

THERE is a quantity of excellent mixed reading in Mark Twain's latest collection of stories and sketches, The Man that Corrupted Heidleyburg. Of the twenty pieces which make up......

Canada And Diplomacy.

British and American Diplomacy A f fecting Canada, 1782-1S99 : a Chapter of Canadian History. By Thomas Hodgins, Q.C. (Publishers' Syndicate, Toronto.)—Mr. Hodgins has written a......

American Magazines.

Some of the American magazines, like certain of our own, indicate too marked a favour for articles somewhat of the "symposium type," with the result in many cases of the......

Current Literature.

THE MINOR MAGAZINES. There are one or two good papers of the " miscellaneous " charac- ter in the new number of the Lady's Realm, such as "The Cult of the Cat" (which is......