24 MAY 1913, page 20

English Farming.•

ME. PEOTHEBO'S masterly book suggests at once a comparison with one of its predecessors. Eleven years ago Sir H. Rider Haggard published in his .Rural England two large volumes......

Queen Mary The Second.*

THE portraits of Queen Mary II. hardly seem to justify Lord Melbourne's description of her—given to Queen - Victoria and noted more than once in her diary—as " the most......