17 JUNE 1899, page 22

Recent Short Stories.*

WE give the place of honour in a batch of collections of short stories—many of them of exceptional merit—to the volume entitled On the Edge of Empire, although in mere literary......

Asiatic Studies.*

A FEW years ago Sir Alfred Lyall, long one of the most distinguished members of the Indian Civil Service, and latterly Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces, was......