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An Apology For The Boer Republics.* Any One Who Has

had occasion to read many books on South African questions must find that local historians are, as a rule, deficient in what may broadly be described as general • The War in.......

Books.

MISS JEKYLL'S NE W BOOK.* Miss JEKYLL'S new book makes an interesting contribution to a new and rather curious little school of literature. This school cannot be called exactly......

Music •

SOLDIER-MUSICIANS. THE debt that soldiers owe to music is too obvious to be in- sisted upon. Some years ago, when the Lord Mayor enter- tained the musical profession at the......