23 NOVEMBER 1901, page 17

Poetry.

THE FUR-SEAL. WHERE earth's eternal fires have starred The bleak Aleutian Chain With smould'ring picquet-posts that guard The parting of the main, Sullen the clustered mountains......

Books.

" LINESMAN " ON THE WAR IN NATAL.* THE republication in book form of magazine articles cannot be commended as a universal rule, but it has seldom been more completely justified......