25 JANUARY 1902, page 4

From East And West Africa.* The Reviewer Of Books Is

often constrained to ask himself what makes the difference between an interesting book and a dull one, and that question is forced on us by the comparison of these two volumes,......

Books.

THE STORY OF THE NATIONS.—WALES.* Mn. OwEN EDWARDS, in summing up the character and policy of Llywelyn the Great, uses a very felicitous and sig- nificant phrase : "He had given......

A Classic Of The Prairies.*

SINCE the trunk lines of railway joined the Atlantic and Pacific the prairies of North America have been almost forgotten. When the fringe of white men was ,advancing across the......