24 NOVEMBER 1900, page 20

The So Tb. African Settlement.*

A. YEAR ago, when the country was awakening to the serious- ness of the war in South Africa, there was urgent demand for books about the Boers. Several books of great interest......

French Highways And Byways.* Mr. Henry James Has A Good

deal of the French touch and the French spirit. He loves Italy better than France, it is true, and one of the best things he can find to say of a French ' town—La Rochelle, for......